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The word 'macpherson'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
macphersonOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.797
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 7.7 3 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of macpherson in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

McArthur, Kaydi Rich n Peer, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Banff, prose
an affa fine loonie cad James MacPherson. He bade in Inversneckie bit
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
ae a heeze up fer the story o Macpherson - Banff Academy pupils will (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
Labour Manifesto SCCC Report MacPherson Report
maist pynts pit forrit bi the MacPherson Report is like tae be pitten
aw the rest o them? Is Peggy MacPherson no marit yet, nor Flora MacCa
3 matches

General Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
Ben Macpherson (SNP) - 18 Aprile 2023 - 18 on page 1

1 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
MacPherson report, “Gaelic: Revitalisi
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt twa: Janus leuks aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ance beats as is heard on the Macpherson’s Rant track.
1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
fae Aberdeenshire ana, whaur MacPherson braks the fiddle http://t.co/ (2015) twitter link