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The word 'messiah'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
messiahOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.5215
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 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
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 199.9 11 1

Occurrences of messiah in Corpus

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Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
k o aa dis, so shö Said, 'Da Messiah is comin - an whan he's asid on page 137
t wis meant ta happen, dat da Messiah wid siffer an be pitten ta da on page 153

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
e mither o Jesus att we ca e Messiah. Sae there wis fowerteen atio on page 7
t tae themsels gin Jock wis e Messiah. Bit Jock spak oot an said ti on page 84
them, "Foo can they say att e Messiah is Daavit's loon? Cause Daavi on page 114
id. Wis it nae necessar att e Messiah wid suffer sic things afore h on page 121

6 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
loued Elvis as if he wis the Messiah incarnate.
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Nae Messiah was kythed, on page 47

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
Tha Forefaithers o Jesus tha Messiah on page 1
Petèr kens Jesus ïs tha Messiah on page 9
in forrit tae tha cumin o tha Messiah, acause tha Halie Spïrit hae on page 72
"Wud ye be tha Messiah that we'r tae luk oot for, or on page 81
etèr kens that Jesus ïs tha Messiah on page 85
Also on pages 108, 110
11 matches

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