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The word 'omen'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
omenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.866
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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)

Occurrences of omen in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
Dim Riv. I kent it wis a bad omen an I wis right, he wis deid a on page 51

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
they were warm it wis a good omen. If cold, however, it meant y(2020)

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
fair tribbled bi aathin o ill-omen. Gin a fisherman saw a blaik
1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
er n man utd scored - its an omen - b oan the reds lol (2021) twitter link

West Central

Clark, Thomas Aw Aboard! The fecht for the Scots language stairts the day!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central - Bellshill, blog
ed bi vyces alane - a fittin omen for a debate aboot whit fowk
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
an. If bein born at sea is an omen, ma son will huv a rare life. on page xix

1 matches

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