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The word 'epic'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
epicOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.32118
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 2
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
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 11.8 9 7
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 2
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 2
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 epic in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
tae-dot fate. I sank intae an epic dwam on page 26

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
dey wir somethin epic aboot da moment, on page 30

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
lderness experience; wrat his epic on page 19

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
absolutely adore alamooties. Epic peerie birds. https://t.co/TC(2020)

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
ewfirmderby is back! Gonna be epic. #standfree #COYR https://t.c(2020)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
quote frae Sir Walter Scott's epic poem The Lay of the Last Mins
1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
A wondrous epic A had planned
1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
s taste wis fur weel-scrievit epic romances fae the great Englis on page 23

1 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
Prentit bi Epic Colour, 75 Trafalgar Lane, Ed on page 2

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - Andra’s Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
er hed tae dree. Mireille, an epic o hauflin luve an tragedie - on page 50

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
Pit-poetry, that includit the epic warks A Daurk Line o Fir Tree on page 133
fu owersettin o the Icelandic epic mentioned abuin, and his tech on page 134

3 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
epic verse,
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Review: Saltire: Invasioun, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
man sodgers but fechtin in an epic clash agin the Roman gode o w
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
it kythes in the 14th-century epic The Brus, the earliest mensef
1 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
hn Barbour uises in his Scots epic poem ‘The Brus’ (c. 1370)
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
An epic battle did embroil on page 12

1 matches

@jamie_ginger tweeted
That was an epic at the dart but came away wit(2012)

South West (Galloway)

Evie OOR WULLIE’S SEASON’S GREET, (Largs Writers Group 2015) Central - Largs, prose
colourful. Thur wis a smashin epic Broons poyum fae Kate which l
1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
shugmcmillan Miriam is beyond epic and into the realms of byordn(2020)

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