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The word 'monument'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
monumentOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.91612
ORK - Orkney
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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)

Occurrences of monument in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
ws waarmer as we approach the monument.
1 matches

General Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
an hae some kin o monument at craws on page 26

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
heid and attendance that the monument of grit antiquitie now fundin
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
nt that the maist significant monument in Calton Cemetery at the Eas on page 59
o Embra's Princes Street the monument tae the transportit Martyrs w on page 60

2 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ht oaff the toap ae the Scots monument. Ah’ll no be gone oot that
1 matches

Glasgow

Logan, Kirsty Lego, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
a dad pointed oot the Wallace monument, like he iways does. Then we
1 matches

General Central

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 73 - Banes, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
His maister's gansey is a monument on page 75

1 matches

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 73 - Monument, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Monument on page 100
At the monument til King Edward 1 o England a on page 101

2 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
s poshest heidstane, mair o a monument, put up a hunner years later.

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
A monument for the Covenanters was erect

@billykayscot tweeted
isit the kirkyaird an see the monument. Pouerfu stuff! Archie Fisher(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
(Tae his Monument oan the White Sands, Dumfries on page 28

1 matches

Ross, Derek Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
mair o a folly than a monument. on page 191

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
n. Thair's a quare big fancie monument fur Elic and aa his femlie up on page 7

1 matches

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