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The word 'graveyard'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
graveyardOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3109
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 85.3 3 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of graveyard in Corpus

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Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
An fled the graveyard site, on page 40

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
I visit no cowld, lonely graveyard Wi posies tae wither and die. on page 67

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
a chiels cam tae him, oot o e graveyard, baith teen a haud o wi sic a on page 17

1 matches

Dundee

Matthews, Lily A SPARK O INSPIRATION, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
heavy iron gates o the Howff graveyard. Ah heard trees moanin an whi
1 matches

General Central

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
uot;We need tae gang thru the graveyard tae reach it but nivver mind

@DABArbuckle tweeted
igging up bodies in yer local graveyard tae examine a body. Have some(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
A Golem rins fae the graveyard an the win is readin quate in on page 9

1 matches

General Ulster

Adams, Rab Yarns 3 - A Ghost Story, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Ulster, prose
r wis a lanesome, dairk earie graveyard, specially wae a ghost story
oor in a different bit o the graveyard cas they wur jukkin a drink.
2 matches

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
linchy, which leads to an old graveyard. Official name is something a(2020)

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