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The word 'continuum'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
continuumOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1105
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
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) 102.5 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of continuum in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
on the ither haund, bein on a continuum wi Scottish English an wi mai
y liggin somewhaur alang this continuum, cuid be a different maitter
earer tae the Scots end o the continuum an the micht be some lowsin o
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General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
e, mair style-driftin alang a continuum (in Aitken's 1979 terminology on page 9

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
The period o mellin set up a continuum atween Scots an Staunart Ingl
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Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
, forming part of the dialect continuum between areas to the North an
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Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
That haughs a continuum o boke on page 51

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Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
fae aa airts o the poleetical continuum think it a quare geg tae crac
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General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
olk fae across the poleetical continuum slabber aboot Ulster Scots. (2016) twitter link
he notion tae think o it as a continuum wi the braid US at yin end an (2015) twitter link