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The word 'selkirk'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
selkirkOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1109
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 62.4 5 5
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 selkirk in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Oor tinker thocht: Thon Selkirk lad Wis a wild boy, like myse on page 11

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
We a sonsy face an thi Selkirk Grace on page 121

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
n innocent men an weemin frae Selkirk tae the Solway an Strathaven on page 44

1 matches

General Central

Holton, Brian Lallans 67 - The Nine Sangs: Brian Holton, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
grew up in Embro, Falkirk an Selkirk, an wis learnt Chinese at the on page 32

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
ae be confined tae the Sooth: Selkirk in 1835, Berwick in 1899 and
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
unin outside Joe’s Café in Selkirk Market Place wi Cathy Cockbur
1 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Ha, Mansion, whilk ligs i the Selkirk airt. Jimmy Cook wis the gair
1 matches

@cammyrudkin tweeted
Gala v Selkirk the nite refereed be a Hawick(2012)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
Souter i return ti selkirk when the roses bloom again. #(2012)

@officialAliRed tweeted
aig. The latest chain in the #Selkirk link to Flodden. https://t.co(2019)

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