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The word 'deirdre'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
deirdreOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.3145
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 26.2 8 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 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 28.1 2 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of deirdre in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
friens, Bobbin the Spurgie an Deirdre the Deer spent Yule
wn byordnar shargeret,” quo Deirdre. “Hauf her needles blew aff
Deirdre the Deer fan the pyock o geeg
n them hame tae Weirdich Wid. Deirdre’s horns war taiglit wi pair
er wheezy tae even cheep. Fin Deirdre tried tae
8 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Dear Deirdre on page 146

2 matches

General Central

Matheson, Ann Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
while his torn-faced dochter, Deirdre, girns anent the drauchty aul on page 128

2 matches

General Ulster

DfC Press Offys Hargey sets oot Owersettin Hub, (Depairtment fur Commonities 2021) Ulster, government
Commonities Mannyster Deirdre Hargey haes theday set oot a
1 matches

Depairtment fur Commonities Hargey announces heidwie oan plens fer Airish an’ Ulster-Scots, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
theday, Commonities Meenester Deirdre Hargey hes announced.
1 matches

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