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The word 'prehistoric'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
prehistoricOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.488
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of prehistoric in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
o dat near here, bit dey ir a prehistoric settlement, aboot a mile awa. on page 54

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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
tor, gray an menacin lik some prehistoric monster. Bit it wis like nae on page 87

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(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
were the sites associatit wi prehistoric folk, Pechts, Romans, Celts y on page 77

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West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ill-informed discussioun o ‘Prehistoric Playmate’, afore Robb turns
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Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
The furst soond wis the prehistoric cawin o a cacophonie o gulls.
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General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
mnants of some beliefs of the prehistoric Orcadians and the tomb builde on page 110

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Hershaw, William Lallans 56 - In The Classroom, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
ghts. In the het o summer the prehistoric radiators wad bum on whiles t on page 37

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East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
gulls wi legs danglin gey an prehistoric walcomed them intae the brich on page 44

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