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The word 'oath'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
oathOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus41311
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 1
LAL - General Central 8 6 5
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of oath in Corpus

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Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
An muttered a low an solemn oath on page 84

1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
A SECRET OATH
1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
perate. And kennin the sacred oath these receptionists took tae
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
r nurture, a birth cry and an oath on page 75

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
, for failin tae tak the Test oath acknowledgin the king as heid on page 39
e . . . will ye nou swear the Oath o Allegiance tae His Majestie on page 45

2 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
But nae word or oath could express the state he wi on page 139

1 matches

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
h!' sneists the man, 'Gie the oath!' on page 46

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
of that town, did depone opon oath that they saw it.
1 matches

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
as they registered an taen an oath o allegiance tae him. Only th

Facebook link ( 2020) Central
refused to tak the Abjuration oath … tae swear allegiance to t

@LairnScots tweeted
are o MPs that hae taen their oath in Scots. An Scots MP's yaise (2020) twitter link

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
lang syne, 'Dïnnae brek yer oath, but keep tha oaths ye hae ma on page 5

1 matches

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