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The word 'loyalty'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
loyaltyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.797
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
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 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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 56.9 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of loyalty in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
nd, wis staunch and true. His loyalty didna extend tae lovers - he on page 77

1 matches

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
ps sensin this quiet shift in loyalty, slunk oot the door. Whether
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
ed tae criticise - I’ve nae loyalty tae the SNP but this typicall (2020) twitter link
- adversity brings oot great loyalty fae fitba fans (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
raed oot, “As a gesture of loyalty and affection and in order to
1 matches

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
wis a yin person dug and his loyalty wis tae ma faither. That mich
1 matches

General Central

McClurg, Fernando The Great Divide, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
es been able tae commaund the loyalty o Scots, but ainlie sae lang
1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
@CrDoire @WJProgressive Aa loyalty would hae tae be conditional, (2015) twitter link
" thinkin amang Ulster Scots: loyalty tae King / Government aye con (2015) twitter link