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The word 'eastern'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
easternOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.82616
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.9 5 2
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 3
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 1
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 eastern in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ff frae the kailyaird wis the eastern merker. The maid's thick airm
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
geck that she wis furreign….eastern, she'd stake her life on't, b
1 matches

General Northern

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ric_Ally History o the leid o Eastern Scotland. The extint o Gaelic(2020)

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Not eastern spell, but north's reality. on page 30

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom Lallans 59 - Leids and Lieder: Walcome ti Helvetiscots, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
olatioun o the remote glens o eastern Switzerland. Ane o the makars on page 5

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
hile walcomin the inclusion o eastern European minority leids, said
ened languages in compare tae eastern European minority anes."
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 86, (self-published 2001) Central, newspaper
ill be airtit in an office in eastern Co. Donegal wi three tae fowe
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West Central

Aitken, Jim Lallans 104 - A Pauchle o Thochts oan the Middle Aist, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
tae turn Lebanon intae their eastern Riviera - how vauntie is tha on page 26

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
uds lik furrowed saund in the Eastern sky, on page 15

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Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
boot tae git sucked intae nae Eastern religion foreby. Which mak’
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Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
zhou, whaur her employer, the Eastern Sector Walfare Service, provi
e’s the head of Welfare’s Eastern Sector - he’ll soon tell h
hair fingers crossed that the Eastern Walfare Section wadna check w
3 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
ing at once, a great droning, Eastern, almost spirit leavin the boa on page 3

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Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
the auldest kind. Only it’s Eastern enlightenment an tantric well
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Ayrshire

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
uds lik furrowed saund in the Eastern sky.
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General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
ookbooks are ower here on the eastern waw. Will we gang hae a wee d on page 39

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Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Bycommon star, unkent o eastern kings; on page 33

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Eagle, Andy Lallans 67 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
n Craig, the heichest pynt in eastern Aiberdeenshire, (www.tour-bri on page 65

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
his hosteility tae the North-eastern makars (1996). The pint is th on page 56

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Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
dey Central Asia and pairts o Eastern Europe) – whaur classical s
it in modern-dey northern and eastern Scotland aboot 1,800 year syn
hat, oot-through northern and eastern Scotland, people were probabl
specifically in northern and eastern Scotland, includin Orkney, Sh
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South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
e day we celebrate wir Middle Eastern halle saint, a fisherman fae on page 77

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