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The word 'coarse'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
coarseOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus20.66710
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 192.9 59 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 coarse in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
tae ken the maths tae tak the coarse tae qualiefy on page 15
esht," he says. He's takkan a coarse: communiecaetions. He kens hi on page 29

2 matches

Towrie, David Wirkin' the Tang - a dialect tale, (Orkneyjar 2010) Orkney, prose
Weel, of coarse, the pot on the fire hid tae
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
vessel tae fish aff 0, En of coarse thi hid aa thi accootramints on page 1
m an hee's canny nayter an ov coarse hee's Fower Mile Wreck. He hi on page 3
mp's, paraffin heeter's en ov coarse, oor fyne an cosy coal fyre. on page 4
fog horn, fin er weis fog ov coarse. Al nivver furgait thi majic on page 5
t o thi pod's, "Majic." En ov coarse we wid tak wer veyg's haim ta on page 6
Also on pages 7, 9, 10, 12, 18, 19, 20, 21, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 38, 40, 50, 51, 53, 55, 56, 57, 60, 64, 65, 67, 68
57 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
t she wore. They were made wi coarse cheap leather, faras these bo
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
6. The Tale o the Twa Coarse Breets
1 matches

General Northern

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
r. You hated the land and the coarse speak of the folk and learnin
1 matches

(South) East Central

Morton, Elaine Lallans 61 - Twa poems, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Lothian, poetry
Nae etin wab ti set him, nae coarse raip on page 60

1 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
swallae the haill field. The coarse mechanical thing could bide w on page 18

1 matches

@raiphsays tweeted
@JeanTelfer744 Pit coarse grain mustart, wee bit Wooste(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Tindal, Betty Lallans 73 - Mither, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Dryin her hands on the coarse hessian sack at her waist, on page 58

1 matches

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