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The word 'greenock'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
greenockOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus12.14011
ORK - Orkney
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 12.2 5 4
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 288.3 27 1
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 4
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 greenock in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
Germans & Italians. Loon fae Greenock kint some(2019)

(South) East Central

Moodie, Gordon D. Lallans 90 - Snoke Iz A Pithie Warlock, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
y's wheem - weel he wiz frae Greenock efter aw. Ma mither wiz black on page 78

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
and feelins of folk leevin in Greenock at the time he wes screevin h on page 95

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
uir wumman wis brocht afore a Greenock magistrate for pauchlin a kis
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
bout his favourite auntie fae Greenock, and watch him doon a bottle (2020)

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
The Greenock boy whaes broad guttural brog on page 61

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
oot o the warld at the heid o Greenock, an I confess, I thocht naebo on page 24
e Douglas, that he caad in at Greenock Mains on the Sorn road for a on page 25
ithers, auld Tammas Richard o Greenock Mains, Jean Weir o Darnhunch, on page 40
the lands o the Cruikedbank o Greenock in the pairish o Muirkirk, ma on page 48
irs juist seiven mile north o Greenock Watter, the Duke o Monmouth's on page 51
Also on pages 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 63, 68, 69, 70, 75, 78, 79
27 matches

General Central

Eagle, Andy Lallans 67 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
Naurby Glesgae is the Greenock Cut. This naurhaund five mile on page 65

1 matches

Watt, George T. Lallans 73 - Gruggie, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Fan thi Clyde atween Greenock an Helensburgh on page 74

1 matches

Gillespie, Alan Mon the Rovers, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, prose
, ROVERS GET MUNICH, PARS GET GREENOCK. The Pars hud just been releg
1 matches

@bigandymccoll tweeted
wis, huvvin seen her speak in Greenock afore when I wis stood next t (2022) twitter link
k in Stirling willnae be like Greenock wis. She's deliberately taken (2022) twitter link
second in the bar wi Kenny in Greenock) so i can vouch for all of yo (2022) twitter link

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