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The word 'essays'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
essaysOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.82215
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern 325.5 2 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 17.3 13 8
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 essays in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Manson, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Doric - Dumfries, poetry
; and hus contributed ower 40 essays and articles oan MacDiarmid a on page 109

1 matches

South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Montrose, prose
The title o this walin o essays, as the editor Walter Stephen on page 125

1 matches

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, prose
The title o this walin o essays, as the editor Walter Stephen
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
atires (Quo Stalin on Lenin), essays an a nummer o poetry pamphlet
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 81 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Prestwick, newspaper
ur ongaun series o linguistic essays, Gavin Falconer luiks at Scot on page 5

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Prestwick, prose
llans' disna forordnar review essays bi individual skreivars wha i on page 116

1 matches

Hodgart, John A Catalogue o Sair Neglect, (Bella Calledonia 2016) Central - North Ayrshire, blog
Hodgart, in the first o fower essays, spells oot why historically
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Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ither is as a series o short, essays, an the same subjecks crop up on page 16

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Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
example, A wis handin’ back essays in a HND class, A ay’ prese
1 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 102 - Editorial: Jean Tamson’s Bairns, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
ne furthsets poetry, fiction, essays and polemics in Scots o ilka on page 4

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Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
d o the lesson, she hauns oor essays back oot. Dante's gat a big w on page 44
ith hauns oot everywan else's essays. Ah'm wan o the last tae huv on page 45

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Harrison, Jean Lallans 59 - BARRY SCHUIL 1928 - 1934, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
An he made us write oot lang essays tae see if we had been peyin on page 120

1 matches

Holton, Brian Lallans 67 - The Nine Sangs: Brian Holton, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
nese, as weill as articles an essays anent owresettin.) on page 32

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
o the S.N.P). In a buik wi 26 essays, it wis necessar tae brek the on page 110

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McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 58 - Gairm review, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
come tae lippen on: tales an essays o the Gaelic warld an ither a on page 126

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Wilson, Rab Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
al mebbies, or Orwell's early essays?). The poet leeterally sees t on page 133

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Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
essays an
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Wilson, Rab A centre of undeemous excellence fir Scots leid, (The National 2017) Central, newspaper
ots, til heavyweicht academic essays an wittins that wid be o muck
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