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The word 'elsewhaur'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
elsewhaurOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.5158
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 53.4 5 2
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 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 elsewhaur in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Da Ness is actually clear and elsewhaur isna ?? I'll hae tae mark da (2020)

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Here's the problem wi the trad wife muivement, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
ry day, weemin in Scotland an elsewhaur hiv tae fecht the sair fecht
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
A hae seyed it elsewhaur in this book but, tho it mich on page 67
ilians in the war in Yemen an elsewhaur. Profit is profit. on page 114

2 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ut aiblins he's gone tae grun elsewhaur by this time... Trooper, bind on page 45
e commanded. "He shall answer elsewhaur ... John Broun. Ye hae carele on page 46

2 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
here wis eneueh weel aff fowk elsewhaur tae vote the Tories in! on page 12
I've mentioned elsewhaur relations wha were ma faither on page 23

3 matches

General Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 73 - Waashin Day Weirriors, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
"Awa an pley elsewhaur, ye wee buggers" follaed thai on page 63

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
gart explicit at sindry pynts elsewhaur in the poem: ‘As we doe now
there is siblike evidence fae elsewhaur in the Renaissance era o wimm
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
mak, whauras English speikers elsewhaur are no likely tae hae the x (
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Elsewhaur it's somethin on page 18
'Ginger' elsewhaur is aye on page 19

2 matches

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