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The word 'cannel'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cannelOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.5216
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 26.2 8 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.3 7 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 94.2 3 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of cannel in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
heid o a hill. Fan ye licht a cannel, ye dinna pit it aneth e bush on page 11
"Nae chiel lichts a cannel an haps it wi a pottie or pit on page 93
"Naebody lichts a cannel an pits it awa oot o sicht an on page 100
n o them, dis she nae licht e cannel an brush oot e hale hoose an on page 107

5 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
s Beannie hid tellt her. Ilka cannel wiz three inches high an each
wiz ‘Destiny’ an fitivver cannel burned oot first that wiz the
struck midnicht as the middle cannel burned oot, the ither twa sti
3 matches

General Central

Holton, Brian Lallans 67 - The Nine Sangs: Brian Holton, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
pour the cannel yill, see, the pepperie brose on page 17
smoothlie A skiff, see, in cannel-wuid coble on page 19
cabers o the cannel, ay, an spykarie bauks on page 21
poukin the cannel beuchs, ay, A'm lang an lang on page 23
n the Pleuch, see, to pour ma cannel yill on page 27
Also on pages 29
7 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
ae gan oot althegither, lik a cannel. A wunner what A shud be lik on page 13

3 matches

General Ulster

Ullans Speakers Association Nursery Rhymes for Weans, (Ulster-Scots Agency 2008 ISBN: 978-0955791697) Ulster, weans
Lake a cannel in tha sky on page 10
Tha beef-man, the baker an cannel stick maaker, on page 25

2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
Naebodie pits a lichtit cannel unnèr a pot tae hide ïts li on page 90

1 matches

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