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The word 'sac'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sacOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.4189
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 14.6 6 1
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 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 sac in Corpus

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Orkney

Towrie, David Wirkin' the Tang - a dialect tale, (Orkneyjar 2010) Orkney, prose
s aboot them — for a wak on sac bonnie a night wis like a hol
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ly wintit te bide in a cul-de-sac. An ess is a fine big hoose w on page 20

1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
if ye fin' yersel in a cul-de-sac ye dinna loup ower a body's g on page 32

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
g. As pairt o this Forum, the SAC gart thae bodies tae send roo
wi yer Synergy paper tae the SAC, but juist wi ane or twa thin
pynt A wantit tae mak tae the SAC. (No that A'm agin research,
ae? Ane guid thing anent this SAC blather is rattlin wur harns
yaisers - an wi ony luck the SAC will pit siller intae ony new
5 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
James P Spence wis awardit an SAC grant in 2006 tae gaither sto
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 76 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
The SAC skreid threips that oor: 'app on page 3

3 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
lichen-covert gravestones fae sac monie years afore. The win wa on page 69
he wis sac wee. Oniewey he wis doun in t on page 109

2 matches

Glasgow

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
re lookin for was in a cul-de-sac. It wis a hoose, no a flat, n
1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
aes aside their bed at nicht, sac that they cuid rax ower tae t on page 13
environment doon ablow grund, sac I never kennt thaim personall on page 20

2 matches

General Central

Mackintosh, Jim The Banes o the Turas, (Tippermuir 2022 ISBN: 978-1913836313) Central, poetry
sac-lik the eternal on page 18

1 matches

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