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The word 'goblin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
goblinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.173
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 2
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 goblin in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
audin somethin precious — a goblin in the gloom. Ither times, sh
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Wee Story Aboot Love, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
snuffbox. A tottie wee black goblin wi bleezin reid een cam chair on page 73
- or wis it that sleekit wee goblin? - and the tin sodger wis bl on page 74
"Yon goblin has done this tae me!" he tho on page 76
ade, or mibbe the ill-trickit goblin whispered some sleekit haiver on page 80

5 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
y coals an he cawed it ‘the goblin grim.’ Daes this no pit us
1 matches

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