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The word 'essay'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
essayOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.12715
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.3 3 2
WCE - West Central 48.8 11 5
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 6
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 essay in Corpus

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Shetland

Williamson, Christie Da Problem o dese Paerts, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Shetland, prose
wa year fae syne, in 2019, da essay fan me as a form. Haein bön
g I want ta makk fur dis is a essay'. Da first time dat happened
2 matches

(South) East Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
MacDiarmid cites, in a verse essay on literary criticism. And So on page 95

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
lue cam wi Professor Aitken's essay "How to Pronounce Older Scots
Professor Aitken's essay is intae "Bards and Makars" (
2 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 81 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Prestwick, newspaper
obertson gies us a fescinatin essay on 'Wildlaw', a concep at mon on page 5

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Locke's great 'Essay on the Understanding'. on page 18

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Prestwick, prose
hakespeare', the teitil o the essay contributioun bi J. Derrick M on page 116

3 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ba’, but for aw, he wun til essay an poetrie prizes, includin t
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Hodgart, John A Catalogue o Sair Neglect, (Bella Calledonia 2016) Central - North Ayrshire, blog
en this apologetic coursework essay on a Scottish text wis appare
lete ane pass/fail coursework essay on a Scottish text (wan poem
en this apologetic coursework essay on a Scottish text wis appare
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Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
l micht faw asleep afore this essay wis done.
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@MizLiot tweeted
me issue the other week wi an essay on whether or no animals can (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie O pigs and dugs: what for dae we treat them sae different?, (Mak Forrit 2024) Central - Edinburgh, blog
Stunned [visual essay anent gas chaumers] — ABC N
chaumer systems, this visual essay by ABC News in Austrailie gae
2 matches

Ayrshire

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
Locke’s great ‘Essay on the understanding’.
1 matches

General Central

Freeman, Fred Lallans 102 - Burns, Hamish and Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
hor: This is pairt three o an essay by Fred Freeman publisht in Z on page 65

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
e the airgument. Sae faur his essay wis spyled. on page 110

3 matches

McClurg, Fernando Votin isna Democracy. But..., (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
direck democracy. It isna an essay on the nature o representatio
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@jack_capener tweeted
MDempster Up late scrievin an essay an keep yaisin the wird 'prop(2018)

@jax6754 tweeted
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@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
ary deities and nae een I can essay tae screive that I Scots. Man(2020)

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