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The word 'marrow'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
marrowOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.8328
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 311.9 25 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of marrow in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
along wae a scrap o maet on a marrow bone. on page 117

1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
@alfordbrad Marrow fat peas but a wis fear ti co(2020)

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
the watter freezin' yer very marrow, an' see the waves meetin' ow on page 16

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
A'm stricken to a marrow,
1 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 90 - Sally, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
or a lassie, wee Mary wis the marrow o ony laddie, an it wisnae la on page 59

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
sear James Hogg, Motherwell's marrow, nae lang afore he dee'd, in on page 69

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
he Braidlie, Roberton) an his marrow (spouse), Kate Burnet o Beldh
auld John Glendinning an his marrow. The youngest son, Johonnie G
marrow, frae Ropelawsheil, whae wur
marrow, bade on is herd fur Buccleuc
biggit fur ae herd, whae’s marrow hed T.B. The
25 matches

General Ulster

Ni Chuilin, Caral Roadin furtae Bring Forrits an Graith tha ULSTER-SCOTCH Leid, Heirskip an Cultur, (Mannystrie o Fowkgates, Airts an Aisedom 2015) Ulster, government
lats adae wi thair scowth tae marrow wi tha fennin o schuils, coll on page 28

1 matches

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