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The word 'cockburn'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cockburnOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.797
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 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 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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 cockburn in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Haggis tasting notes, and whisky pairings, (Brisk Northerly 2019) Orkney, blog
Haggis #2 – George Cockburn and Son, Dingwall, Highland
ae buy a supermarket haggis.) Cockburn’s semolina-textured haggis
cloves than Donaldson’s or Cockburn’s, BTW, so a sweeter flavou
3 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 59 - Boswell’s Coort, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
Mistress Cockburn, wha screivit
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
were as bad as the men. Lord Cockburn, in his time a weel-kennt jud on page 103

1 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
t precious possessions. Henry Cockburn cried Scots a 'picturesque an on page 8

1 matches

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
IshbelMcF Cairds in a shop in Cockburn Street. Scots insults aye mak(2016)

@billykayscot tweeted
In the immortal words of Mrs Cockburn of Dura Street, he “wis a hu(2020)

South East (Borders)

Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
Selkirk Market Place wi Cathy Cockburn. A lad comes by an says ti he
1 matches

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