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The word 'oceans'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
oceansOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.9167
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 9.3 7 2
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of oceans in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
s engineer an sail the muckle oceans. He hid won his engineer's ti
or teachin, or ower the braid oceans overseein the milkin o rubber
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
s fae the sea-touns aneth the oceans – wi eneuch oxygen factorie
d aid-relief drappies tae the oceans an the lan. The maist o them
2 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
that transcend continents and oceans, on page 21

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
en her. “You traivel athort oceans ... Yer faimly haads thegithe
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Across the oceans that is whit they see on page 21

1 matches

Ayrshire

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
that transcend continents an oceans,
1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
bonnie,' he said. "Dis it hae oceans?' on page 54
the moontains, the seas, the oceans, an the deserts. A geographer on page 55

2 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 63 - Stravaigin The Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
daurk deep inner space o the oceans ablo us. At ‘Into the Abyss
ik news airticles adae wi the oceans an marine life an aquarium re
aurkest neuks o the warld’s oceans, an mair oot ower, ye can fin
ye sicht the meesteries o the oceans. A guid wheen ploys an maiter
logy an airts an pairts o the oceans an whit’s doun ablo.
5 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
But A hae made sheuchs o oceans on page 58

1 matches

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