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The word 'excep'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
excepOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2145
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 68.2 11 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 excep in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
an we aa gied up an ower. Aa excep Gavin. He couldna move. An fa on page 16

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
unnerstaund, naebody that is excep Jamie Stone MSP (Lib Dem). Na
1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 82 - Biggin the Great Nor Road, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
Excep fur stane men, the trauchled on page 66

2 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
Excep fossil-dry, grey-bleached, on page 16

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ot. Aabody wis talkin. Aabody excep Bill, wha wis keyin eidently.
kle wis sayed while they ett, excep that Hsien informt thaim, “
y were textbeuk Neanderthals, excep they werena especially smaa.
iret wi a suitable expletive, excep that the Auld Langage seemt a
ich aye leukit bleak an deid, excep whaur a gleg ee cud see the m
8 matches

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
as slang was gey widespreid, excep amang the aulder fowk intervi on page 9

1 matches

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