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The word 'sermon'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sermonOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.42818
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 31.5 3 2
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 1
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 131.3 4 2
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sermon in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
d the Ten Commandments as his sermon fur the day. on page 62

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
uf trou the lang an weel-kent sermon. An Higgie's soprano cracks t on page 33

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
- the lot Prayers, readins, sermon, benediction an aa on page 15

1 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
Eence Jesus wis throw wi his sermon, e fowk were dumfoonert at hi on page 15

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
s a lang service, an a langer sermon, an efter the elders hid taen
fairly richt, fur maist o the sermon gaed clean ower her heid, bit
2 matches

Aberdeen

McGregor, Iain Lallans 77 - Farquhar, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
e unraivel. It hid bin a lang sermon this parteeeclar Sunday morni on page 100

1 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 79 - The Bonnie Lintie, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
e e minister gat yokit wi the sermon an aat pre-occupeet aabody fo on page 26

1 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 83 - The Umman, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
ist o’s tak notes aboot the sermon but es beuk haed th’ummanâ€
1 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 73 - Obituary for David Ogston, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, prose
an eimaginative sermon, we war awaur that here wes a on page 12

2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ravestanes as he composed his sermon fer the follaein Sunday's ser on page 109

1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
its course. Nae hellfire sermon on page 112

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
e meenister had feenished his sermon. Then a laich hummin frae the on page 35
e no waitin for the efternuin sermon?' on page 38

2 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Eemis Stane 2 - Editorial: A Twa Wey Street, (Eemis Stane 2023) Central, prose
in tae extract frae the day's sermon, mind. The linguistic infrast on page 3

1 matches

Goodbrand Saunders, Donald Lallans 67 - Twa Owresettins frae Heine, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
But nae saul-searchan sermon, audit, or on page 55

1 matches

Fyall, Aitken Lallans 58 - The Wa-Ganging o the Meinister, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Hochmagandy's the tap o ilk sermon, on page 80

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
company of people who met for sermon on Gargunnock Hills, and that
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
t an illegal tae go an hear a sermon oot in the open insteid o in
Aifter a sermon at Kypewater near Lesmahagow
ins, as weel as gien a rousin sermon.

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
rdinary folk tae go an hear a sermon oot in the open an nae in a K

South West (Galloway)

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
preach a sermon, heave a sigh, on page 93

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
erend Greer gien a temperance sermon in the Olderfleet bar, an ma on page 23
attled throu hir memries in a sermon thrashed oot again a rug on page 30
Maisie listened tae hir ma's sermon tae the end, but there was on on page 46

3 matches

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Nae sermon noo there'll be. on page 40

1 matches

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