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The word 'canon'
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Use in varieties of Scots canon Occurrences normalised per million words Occurrences Authors
Dialect map - Usage over time
Total Corpus 4 13 10 ORK - Orkney
9.9
1
1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
5.1
2
2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
42.5
4
1
EDN - Edinburgh
6.3
1
1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
4
3
3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
27.8
2
2
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)
Occurrences of canon in Corpus
In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to
the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.
Orkney
Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots , (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
ar (but yet bonnie an uissfu) canon o Scots steid o the sneck ver
1 matches
(South) East Central
Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews , (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
a tract o its times, biggin a canon o ideas as weill's comin owre on page 95
1 matches
Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177 , (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
e hisnae been includit in the canon , this in spite o the muckle r
1 matches
Dundee
McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit , (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
oject anent the quaistion o a canon o oral leeterature (a ken its on page 75
clIlvanney, Neil Ascherson an Canon Kenyon Wright gied thir suppo on page 107
4 matches
Edinburgh
McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa' , (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
eys, then buggered off. Their canon fired constantly. Fortunately
1 matches
General Central
Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
Passin up the Canon ' Loan on page 141
1 matches
Matheson, Ann Lallans 67 - Reviews , (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
(an awfy wee coarner) in the canon . Houever, romance an moralisi on page 90
1 matches
Law, John Lallans 56 - Editorial , (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
acceptit as pairt o the Burns canon , but it misses this ane, eien on page 4
1 matches
South West (Galloway)
McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 12 , (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
ldnae believe it. A camera! A Canon an aw, a pure minter! Ah goes
1 matches
@StuartPoet tweeted
nglis. We need wir ain ongaun canon o new work scrievit first in (2020)