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The word 'divorce'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
divorceOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.5159
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 127.2 7 2

Occurrences of divorce in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
For I'm gan tae try for divorce" on page 15

1 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
ey were telt, 'Faaivver shuld divorce his gweedwife, lat him gie he on page 12

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Grounds fur divorce aetin a min’s saasage, thoug(2020)

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
sicht o ane anither an got a divorce. She got the hoose an the wea on page 89

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Post-Its, (sandyfleming.org 2005) Central - East Lothian, poetry
Divorce? I never lats on.
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 62 - Blue Lift Snaw, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
happen again. Syne Elsie’s divorce wun throu. I dout I’m no as
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
or divorce. on page 8

1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
that ‘not bot deid sall ws divorce’ – bringin tae mind aince
1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
Aboot divorce on page 5
Jesus axt aboot divorce on page 9
Whaiver gies hïs wife a divorce an gets merriet agane ïs com on page 98

6 matches

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
Divorce’t
1 matches

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