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The word 'sidney'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sidneyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.4283
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 17.7 4 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 62 10 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 18.4 14 2
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 sidney in Corpus

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General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
n shoe-salesman by the name o Sidney Mieras wha, pullin his carava on page 118

4 matches

Edinburgh

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
s o Gordon Highlanders an oor Sidney wis thair. He palled it wi To on page 76

10 matches

General Central

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
whin Ah fun this book o Uncle Sidney's. It wis a big cookbook e us on page 45
w whit they wir talkin aboot. Sidney used tae shout things in es s on page 47

13 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
rdstick o naitrulness, but as Sidney Goodsir Smith famously cracke
1 matches

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