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The word 'infirmary'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
infirmaryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3109
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.3 3 2
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 infirmary in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Johnston, Mary Lallans 81 - A Day at Edinbro Feestival, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric, prose
end e neist twa days in e New Infirmary doon in Little France – aye
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@DoricPhrases tweeted
ng theatre aat Aberdeen Royal Infirmary! https://t.co/gIJgPxXnhJ(2018)

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
wis me, an I'll eyn up in the Infirmary gin I'm lucky, an a mairble s on page 86

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
outh Bridge Education Centre (Infirmary Street) Edinburgh. It wis wri
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 75, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
el happen aince the new Royal Infirmary wis feinisht.) If it wisna py
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West Central

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
chts oot thonner in the Royal Infirmary; on page 141

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
tin as soon as he wis oot the infirmary. He always wis an idiot fae d on page 169

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Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Flemings o’ Dalnoid, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
we dropped intae Perth Royal Infirmary tae gie her some flow'rs. She
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Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Just Another Minute, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
astle Street end ay the Royal Infirmary; a crumblin Victorian relic a
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General Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth In defence o SNHS, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
t away. Intae Edinburgh Royal Infirmary by fower the same efternin. O
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