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The word 'horsemen'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
horsemenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.8166
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 29.4 9 1
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 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 32 3 1
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 horsemen in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
r loons frae ootbye. The made horsemen frae Northies an Jock Dow hae
ae jyne the Britherhood o the Horsemen. Seeven o them hae gotten a h
lflins inno the Britherhood o Horsemen.
ither, then, coontin the made Horsemen.'
i the blinfaulds aff, aa made Horsemen noo, the gaitherin treetled b
9 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
no even the sight ae the four horsemen oan the horizon wid deter oor on page 95

1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Tae catch a glimpse o horsemen, cattle lowin in the nicht, on page 40

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
e risin hill o Balluderon the horsemen cam upon the baist an splitti on page 80

1 matches

Glasgow

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
waves: loomin, powerful, like horsemen oot the watter, as if they co
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
, an the lourin grey shapes o horsemen loomed eerily oot o the mist on page 45
For the horsemen o Esartshall around them were on page 48
goons! Over a hunner o thaim, horsemen an fuit sodgers, nae mair nor on page 51

3 matches

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