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The word 'natur'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
naturOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.23413
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 39.2 12 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21 2 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 9.8 4 2
WCE - West Central 22.2 5 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 490.5 3 1
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 natur in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Bi natur, a dooter o aathin on page 111

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ae bit,' Isie telt her. 'It's natur. Natur isna aye as nicey-nice
. Natur isna aye as nicey-nice as the
ye tae think in the kirk. If Natur wis cut an dried like the sha
frae a lammie it drappit. Bit Natur's nae cut an dried. It's quan
placies. Isie said Fermin an Natur baith hid their nesty sides.
5 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
d lain quaet fur thirty year. Natur wis creepie-crawlin ower the
an smittin oncoms o a sexual natur garred the patient tae hae an
aa life dees, daith lives, an natur breeds
O natur's warks fur me fair dichtit o
4 matches

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Kieran an Aidan, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
ll wi Kieran. Did aa then ill natur at his maakin gig intil him?
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
shuggled aboot wi ill-natur.
wi ill natur.
2 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 87 - Andy, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, prose
far the wyke an wullfu human natur is wintin, the indwallin divi on page 30

2 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 108, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
e sowl o man to his gustative natur; then is the fast, foul, fat
1 matches

Clark, Sara Your Leid, Oor Leid, Awbody's Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
en ah couldnae appreciate the natur o the beast ah wis dealin wi.
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
nguages as weel's the organic natur o language itsel. Frisian is
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
A sumph is a cheil to whom Natur has denied ony considerable s
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Gif ye leeve within Natur's leemits, whit maitter gif y on page 106
Big deal! Juist follow Natur's advice an ye'll no gae wran on page 113
she's ill-contriven, ill-natur'd an ill-faured. on page 114
Natur cannae tell richt fae wrang a on page 121

5 matches

General Central

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 58 - The Rooks, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
An natur shaws hir comin-douns, on page 112

1 matches

Mackintosh, Jim The Banes o the Turas, (Tippermuir 2022 ISBN: 978-1913836313) Central, poetry
a fecht agin aa the sorra o natur on page 21

1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
e circumstances the subsidiar natur o the Irish contreebution tae
1 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
l as lauch, whilst the tragic natur o Phaedra is in nae wyce taen
lutit tragedy. The kenspeckle natur o Racine’s wark heizes up t
2 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth In defence o SNHS, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
tilt. An oor NHS by its verra natur an size wull ay hae issues. B
1 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Fir we hae misused Mother Natur's gifts, on page 37

3 matches

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