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The word 'orphans'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
orphansOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus11.4383
ORK - Orkney
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 47.3 36 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 65.6 1 1
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 orphans in Corpus

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General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
aire bairns - the Baudelaire orphans, noo ~ were led awa frae the on page 10
Poe bocht some claes for the orphans, but the colours were absolut on page 13
ht ahint them, the Baudelaire orphans realised whit a glaikit thing on page 22
the door, and the Baudelaire orphans were that forfechten they did on page 24
lookin at the door, then, the orphans glenced doon, and saw that ev on page 25
Also on pages 28, 34, 40, 41, 44, 45, 48, 51, 52, 55, 57, 61, 62, 65, 68, 71, 72, 81, 99, 103, 110, 116, 124, 132, 133, 152, 154, 161
36 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 75 - On War, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Southern, prose
inti weidaes, an bairns inti orphans?
1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
on tha Steppe Afeart are tha orphans driv on afore him on page 30

1 matches

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