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The word 'prison'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
prisonOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.42823
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 31.5 3 2
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 20.1 4 3
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 2
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of prison 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.

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
"Ah'm been in prison fur da past five years, ah'm on page 58

1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
"She's in prison," e Queen sade till e executi on page 84

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
t noo it fellt tae her like a prison. She couldna enjoy her gairde
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ven days in the new Peterheid Prison. https://t.co/dDWuIlOdPy(2017)

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
like the prison bars on page 26

1 matches

Hardie, Buff Dod 'n' Bunty, (Evening Express 2000) Doric, newspaper
re's some word that Peterheid Prison micht be closin'. Fit d'ye th
Peterheid Prison? Too true it's criminal. It's
2 matches

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
henchman/caretaker, a retired prison oafficer, is sittin lookin oo on page 40

3 matches

Wood, Evelyn Tales Fae The Doric Side - Carlo, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
rocht aa the wye tae Monymusk prison camp in North East Scotland. on page 27
piynted oot the spot far his prison block had been an he found a on page 29

2 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
plained to me the benefits ae prison. "Ah'm tellin yae, Chrissy" h on page 20

1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
tually a primary school but a prison fur the criminally insane.
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
the constables an pit in the prison in the Toun Hoose, wi nae bai on page 126

1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
In hou yer prison's rin, on page 45

1 matches

Logan, Kirsty Lego, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
e an a sink. It looked like a prison cell.
ew ah the boxes, made her wee prison cell look mare like hame. Ma
2 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
boattle, trapped in its gless prison. He offers it oot tae us. ‘
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
dwallt deep in thocht on his prison ycars. 'For fower lang year a on page 31

1 matches

Lehane, Matt Mouse Eat Mouse World, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
wi out wards an musie wi out (prison) bars
1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Prison-cauld whaur bienless eild on page 80

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
or in prison they'll close-pent ye yet. on page 27

1 matches

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
ol tae the heid or a fine, or prison, mibbe torture, mibbe tanspor

@raiphsays tweeted
W! noo am oan episode 3 of at prison series! Yas!(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Nuhin is Certain, Except, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
Onywy. A get roon the prison-style fence, and am immediate
1 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
As hae sits thir in haes prison, wae haes keeper on haes rich on page 18

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Lyttle, A. G. Yarns 3 - Lastin Memorial, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Bangor, prose
a growed up in tha Debtors’ Prison.’
1 matches

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