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The word 'conventicle'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
conventicleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3103
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 74.7 7 1
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of conventicle in Corpus

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Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
the conventicle of Bowhead Saints on page 112

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
rst tae sclim the braes tae a conventicle tae hear the true disciples o on page 24
ticles, whaurby preachin at a conventicle wis punishable by execution, on page 27
n nae bother; but nou a great conventicle had been planned for the furs on page 34
alloped on aheid tae warn the conventicle. Frae him they learnt that th on page 36
had juist been but ance tae a Conventicle, he'd aft-times witnessed wee on page 51
Also on pages 61
7 matches

General Central

Facebook link ( 2022) Central
at 3pm oor village hud a live Conventicle at the Dovecot on Blackwood E

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
than 100 folk turned up for a Conventicle in memory o the Covenanters s

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