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The word 'harpoon'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
harpoonOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.582
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 63.7 6 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 harpoon in Corpus

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Shetland

Jamieson, Robert Alan Lallans 58 - Eicht poems bi Robert Alan Jamieson, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
Or wid du choost harpoon dim? on page 27

1 matches

Jamieson, Robert Alan Metadist Metafir, (Shetland For Wirds 2007) Shetland, poetry
Ir wid du choost harpoon dim?
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
an afore the invention o the harpoon gun that was fixit tae the fr on page 40
e. If there wis only a single harpoon they'd have tae chase eftir i on page 41
pair o them tae jettison the harpoon rope tae lichten the boat. Ti on page 42

6 matches

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