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The word 'isaac'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
isaacOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.3217
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 22.9 7 2
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
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
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) 127.2 7 1

Occurrences of isaac in Corpus

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Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
Ta mak things war, da fedder, Isaac, med a lok o Esau - an da mi on page 11

4 matches

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
Abraham wis fadder tae Isaac, Isaac tae Jacob, Jacob tae Judah an on page 7
will sit doon wi Abraham, wi Isaac an wi Jacob 1 the keengdom o on page 16
n o Judah, sin o Jacob, sin o Isaac, sin o Abraham, sin o Terah, on page 85
teeth, fan ye see Abraham, an Isaac an Jacob an aa e prophits in on page 105
on e God o Abraham an e God o Isaac an e God o Jacob. Ye see, he' on page 114

6 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ham, thy Faither an the God o Isaac. I shall gie ye the lan ye li
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
attle the favourite, Gravity (Isaac bluidy Newton’s goat a loat
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
the Renunciation o Abraham an Isaac. She’d never heard o’t. S
1 matches

General Central

Jarvie, Gordon Lallans 82 - Holy Corners o Auld Scotia, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
that Genesis 28 tells us hou Isaac banisht on page 56

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
Abraham wus tha faither o Isaac, Isaac tha faither o Jacob, J on page 1
ce roon tha boord wi Abraham, Isaac an Jacob ïn tha Kïngdom o H on page 9
Jacob wus tha sinn o Isaac. on page 75
teeth whan ye see Abraham an Isaac an Jacob an aa tha proafits à on page 94
a God o Abraham, an tha God o Isaac, an tha God o Jacob', lang ef on page 104

7 matches

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