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The word 'lucifer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
luciferOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.486
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of lucifer in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
oo are ye faan frae Heiven, o Lucifer, son o the mornin. Isiah, ver
1 matches

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
wis daein it hand in hand wi Lucifer like as nae, an that he hid t on page 118

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
There yill meet Lucifer on page 69

1 matches

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
e smile and there will be nae lucifer to light yer fag, just lucifi(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
feelin Ah've got aboot Pete. #Lucifer(2020)
That's aa wur gettin?! Boo! #Lucifer https://t.co/RsQQy0hBU7(2020)
h'd bin wrang aboot Pete. ?? #Lucifer(2020)

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
it had affen bin decreed that Lucifer was lurkin in iverie corner, on page 42

1 matches

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