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The word 'narrow'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
narrowOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.51513
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 3
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 70.3 2 1
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 4.9 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 narrow 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.

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
"Your wife had a narrow escape," he said, "she's stil on page 53

1 matches

Sutherland, Stella Midder, (Shetland For Wirds 2014) Shetland, poetry
trow narrow grinnd o bane set free
1 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
nerally been rejected outside narrow activist circles as education
policy in Friesland wid be ‘narrow activism’ in Scotland.
2 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
"At wis a narrow escape!" sade Alice, a good d on page 19
a good deal: iss fireplace is narrow, till be sure; but A think A on page 36

2 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
@Dominiquetaegon Ridiculously narrow and clumsy definition tae sta (2022) twitter link

@fittiecrooners tweeted
will pit ye on the straight n narrow laddie!(2019)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
tae her as she goes doon the narrow flight ae stairs. "And dinnae on page 141

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
legs. They heaved her ontae a narrow bench. The crab had pushed aa on page 36

1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
t worry the side ay ma vision narrow doon, lit a camera comin in'a on page 3

1 matches

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ntit each other. The path wis narrow. Aat wiz the thing. They spik
1 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
her rump as she ascended the narrow staircase afore on page 3

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
tandards, at least alang this narrow bit main street. Willie seems on page 72

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - No In-gleesh, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
mare slow walkers on the wee narrow back streets and lanes throug
1 matches

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