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The word 'oct'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
octOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.555
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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 oct in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Military Hospital on Mon 31st Oct aat aboot 7:45am on BFBS http(2016)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
Oct 2003
1 matches

General Central

McClurg, Fernando Review: O is for Hoolet, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
or-hoolet-scratch-arches-live-oct-2014/)
1 matches

@fairpechtoot tweeted
wshank style ;-). ASLS on 1st Oct?(2016)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
e asking me tae speak on Thur Oct 22, a great festival now in i(2020)