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The word 'elephant'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
elephantOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus11.13618
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 52.3 9 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.2 6 5
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 25 4 1
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 1
LAL - General Central 8 6 3
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 elephant in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
e your shoulders look like an elephant's." (Dis ta Maggie Ann's midd on page 13
Elephant in da Soup on page 51
stin dir cookin sweet an soor elephant up at Glenorchy?" on page 53

9 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
it, she'd an erse like a sick elephant." on page 69

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
wee yalla idol o Ganesh, the elephant God, heich in the knowes o th
h tae Embro in hauf an oor bi elephant or bullock cairt hurl, nae bo
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
her heft water bottle wi the elephant’s heid. She LIKIT tae bide
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
n in background ye can see ma elephant tapestry yon te’en me twaa y(2014)

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
es glaur lappers i the sin an elephant gray A hyst Ye wi ma tusks li on page 3

1 matches

(South) East Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 90 - Serendipity, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
'Naw, the Elephant Men.' on page 26

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
'm the great, big, dirty pink elephant in the room. on page 47

1 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
Rabbie Burns, Elephant Man, Sheena Easton, Bob Marle
rview wi the dancehall artist Elephant Man, whose Jamaican accent se
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
He also hud an elephant,
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
the elephant man n the fm oan the bbc - h (2021) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
d be the warld-renooned White Elephant g the Embra trams, which an a on page 30

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
mammoth. Actually he said an elephant, but when he described the _
“Even an elephant - I mean, you couldn’t kee
mean, you couldn’t keep an elephant in that environment ...”
dance posture for Ganesh, the elephant god, an swayed her erm like a
4 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
isshapen the face is, lit the elephant man, as they aw telt iz in P. on page 3

1 matches

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
lines that wid choke a fuckin elephant. Cunts.
1 matches

Ayrshire

Neill, Willie Lallans 61 - Three Tales frae the Brithers Grimm, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Ayrshire, prose
a wowff is concairned, but an elephant is anither thing aathegither. on page 42

2 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
aby, constrictor digeestin an elephant. Syne I drew the innarts o th on page 10
'Na, na! I dinna want an elephant inby a boa constrictor. A boa on page 12

3 matches

Law, John Lallans 56 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
ent ti speir whit like wis an elephant. A bit raip wi the end frayed on page 4

2 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
e with a tranquiliser from an elephant gun after that match #SCOISR (2020)

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