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The word 'colonel'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
colonelOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.6226
ORK - Orkney
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 34.1 14 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 42.7 4 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of colonel in Corpus

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General Northern

Templeton, Sheila Tales Fae The Doric Side - La Bella Rebelle, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
gman's noose - fit saved ye, Colonel Anne? on page 62

1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Tartan Tourism nae mair, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
d Jacobites, a stane tae deid Colonel Anne, a plaque tae deid Rabbi
1 matches

(South) East Central

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
ately, Mistress Chisholm, the Colonel's missus, cam intae his heid. on page 1

14 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
cross the moss tae Cumnock an Colonel Douglas had him shot there at on page 44
he dout, an a fair trial frae Colonel Douglas ower at Cumnock! ... on page 60
the auld man's life; but that Colonel Douglas peyd nae heed an had on page 61
disposed tae the venture, for Colonel, nou General, Lord Cathcart h on page 79

4 matches

General Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
g ‘Gilbert the Filbert, the colonel of the knuts’, at a panto i
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Boul Colonel Paddy caa'd his hame, on page 2

1 matches

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