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The word 'cromwell'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cromwellOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.486
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
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
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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 20 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of cromwell in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Furst Time, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
hame, intae Mains Road, alang Cromwell Street an there we wiz in Ros
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
r the Scots in his fecht agin Cromwell. But aicht year later, on his on page 51

1 matches

General Central

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
mes. MInd ye ten years aifter Cromwell in England wis deid they dug

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
r. Ye’ll huv heard o Oliver Cromwell.

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
e Gallowa, taeen at Dunbar by Cromwell and mairched tae Durham whaur on page 35

1 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
They cannie firget that Cromwell cum, noo boys that is a pity, on page 44

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General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
wrang as thon coorse hallion Cromwell wrecked the aul Mercat cross (2014) twitter link
nae thole thon coorse hallion Cromwell ava! It was aa throuither in (2015) twitter link