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The word 'sinclair'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sinclairOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.897
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 3
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sinclair in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 82 - Beyond The Pale , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
ame league wi peer aal Robbie Sinclair ower at nummer 55, that thoch on page 74

1 matches

General Northern

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
Baw Shi’d b’in up thon loon Sinclair’s erse harder th’in a Broke(2018)

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
The shopowner, a mannie named Sinclair, wisnae aboot the place an th on page 104

1 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 56 - In The Classroom, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
led, "I had to speak to Jimmy Sinclair's Guidance teacher." She muve on page 37

1 matches

Gillespie, Alan Mon the Rovers, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, prose
land team ahead ay him. Davie Sinclair wis at centre-back, and he wi
tae everything, and mad Davie Sinclair wis bombing forward frae the
2 matches

@WhenDidADidny tweeted
Sinclair anawl (2017) twitter link
ans giving it the "what aboot Sinclair" patter need to give it a fuc (2018) twitter link

General Ulster

Robinson, Philip Tae a Virus, (no publisher recorded 2020) Ulster, poetry
e frae tha original by Willie Sinclair o Kilwinning)
1 matches

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