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The word 'murdoch'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
murdochOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.21412
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
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of murdoch in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

General Northern

TheChielMeister Nae mince in Moray, (youtube.com 2008) Doric, poetry
Mebbe gae tae Murdoch's fur a wee staek pie
1 matches

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
@DoricPhrases Murdoch Allan o Turra's finest. Foo's(2020)

West Central

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
yin whit we think. Ask Rupert Murdoch. Ask Paul Dacre. The burden o
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
the malign influence o Rupert Murdoch had a lot tae dae wi it. Stor on page 109

1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
nt intae Scots, efter aw, wis Murdoch Nisbet fae Newmulls in the Ir on page 23

1 matches

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
(Máté, 1996; Horsburgh and Murdoch [1997]; Macafee, 2000), the s on page 9

3 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
ns sic as Grosjean, MacInnes, Murdoch, an Young, that cuid shaw ith on page 110

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
€™. The Lanark scriever A. G. Murdoch in Scotch Readings (1889) gie
1 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
rik.’ (1 Corinthians 14:11, Murdoch Nisbet’s Scots New Testamen
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Evie OOR WULLIE’S SEASON’S GREET, (Largs Writers Group 2015) Central - Largs, prose
mas Crackers play alang wi PC Murdoch, an’ it did sound crackers,
1 matches

Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
In Jenny Murdoch’s windae.
1 matches

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