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The word 'sharon'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sharonOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.41810
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 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 35.9 7 2
AYR - Ayrshire
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sharon in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
t stoapped wae Craig's Aunty, Sharon. Ken? her who's obsessed wae on page 170

1 matches

Edinburgh

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
A rose o Sharon am I, on page 3

1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
, mah Uncle Tommy, mah auntie Sharon, mah granny and granda an abo on page 171
e yersels' ah hear mah auntie Sharon shout efter us, Cow. on page 174

3 matches

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
. She's sleepin the noo. Ah'm Sharon's mammy, she's just gone oot
an's born. Aw the lassies fae Sharon's work came roon yesterday -
tae the next wan comes alang. Sharon'll no know whit's hit her the
is it she's been picked for? Sharon wis gonnae enter her for that
4 matches

General Central

Lang, Charles nobody remembers the birdman - Good Friday, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, poetry
Will Sharon ever find oot? Will Mick sell on page 88

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
O Sharon's rose gart fyle his sheenin on page 37

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
es were juist kent tae me as 'Sharon, age 12', tae gie a for insta on page 9

4 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
ronturner3 All I need tae see Sharon... ?? (2023) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
@mclardy24 Thank ye Sharon(2020)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
tyClarky @peeriemagnie Cheers Sharon, got tae say whit maitters in(2020)