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The word 'orr'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
orrOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.3218
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 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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) 131.2 2 2
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast) 2369.7 1 1
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 197 6 1
GUL - General Ulster 100.1 10 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of orr in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Glasgow

Durie, Nick Votin Seestems, (peffers50.freeserve 2003) Central - Glasgow, prose
ie percent o the vote is nott orr oniebodie can be eleckit. Sou
1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
- Politically. Aiblins baith Orr an Thomson threw Their een ac on page 59

1 matches

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
Whar nicht-wantherin Orr dreamed yit, for a' on page 1

1 matches

South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)

BardOfMilebush Untitled poem, (Reddit 2017) Ulster, poetry
ame Men like Thomson, Porter, Orr, the Rhyming weavers all They
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
For Thomson, Orr an Robert Burns on page 27

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Hae mine o Orr, wha wud hae focht on page 73
Hae mine o Orr, an bear tha gree on page 74

6 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
Mysel, Jemmy Orr an Jemmy Hope aye forgaithere (2015) twitter link
Jemmy Orr fae @Ulsterdivision9 - dinna (2014) twitter link
ic as "Donegore Hill". (James Orr) (2014) twitter link
The day in 1798 James Orr an a clatter o ither #UlsterS (2015) twitter link
New book aboot Jemmy Orr fae Ballycarry, yin o the bes (2014) twitter link
and 3 other occurrences.

@HurchinHome tweeted
For Halloween, from James Orr's "The Spae-Wife" @SnedAndrew(2019)
James Orr's 'The Spae-Wife' #Scotspoem (2018)