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The word 'playfair'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
playfairOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.6222
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 111.6 18 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 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 playfair in Corpus

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Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie William Playfair: faither o data visualisation, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ins in the ootpit o a William Playfair. This I didna ken, an bein so
William Playfair wis born in 1759 in the wee c
. His aulder brither wis John Playfair, that gaed on tae become a fa
n the echteent century. Ane o Playfair’s mony innovations wis tae
Afore Playfair data wis representit in table
18 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
o geology, an the ither, John Playfair (1748-1819) the kirk meeniste
t aiblins it is the lines fae Playfair's 1805 wark Illustrations of
s backbane chitter the maist. Playfair wrate “The mind seemed to g
e abyss of time.” Hutton an Playfair's new uptak o geologic time w
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