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The word 'francis'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
francisOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.61512
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
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.7 5 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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) 102.5 2 2
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of francis in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine St Ninian's Isle, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, poetry
St Francis could a felt at hame here if
1 matches

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
ard hid mair in common wi St. Francis o Assisi. His great affinity on page 118

1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom Lallans 59 - Leids and Lieder: Walcome ti Helvetiscots, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
's the dochter o the composer Francis George Scott, himsel an afici on page 5

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Deid Come Nevermas, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
fae the poem Maggie Lauder bi Francis Sempill o Beltrees (?1616-?16
he time, an he wis weel efter Francis Sempill. Cast a ee ower this
2 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
Scottish antisyzygy. In 1967, Francis Chichester wis knighted by th
English hero Sir Francis Drake lang syne- Watchin aw t
2 matches

Glasgow

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
boot hame. What would Liz and Francis and Anne
1 matches

General Central

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
on runt. Ti compare him wi ma Francis, on page 29
Ma Francis, thouch barely a bairn, on page 32

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 56 - Cauld Kail Fae Embro, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
fter Scots speakers complenit Francis Brewis wrate back sayin "I ap on page 121

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
a quote fae the lexicographer Francis Grose ‘For the same reason,
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
His mither caad him Francis, on page 3

1 matches

Gibson, Darren Cannae Thole Ye!, (lowcountrylad.blogspot.com/ 2014) Ulster - Ards, blog
ty Doon writer an poet George Francis Savage Armstrong caad, ‘A C
1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
oire @WJProgressive Thon's no Francis Hutcheson's contractarianism: (2015) twitter link