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The word 'snare'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
snareOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.9139
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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) 153.7 3 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of snare in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
on aabody aa oy e warl like a snare. Kecp a look oot an ayewcese on page 116

1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
tering ower e tap o her on ma snare fer the first time! #PipeUpfo (2020) twitter link

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
came upon a crudely fashiont snare. A rope, fastened at one end
wis widely believed that the snare involved had been fashiont fa
2 matches

Devlin, Edwin The School Dentist 1969, (Facebook 2020) Doric, prose
s ah thrashed like a cat in a snare but it was tae no avail it lo
1 matches

(South) East Central

Morton, Elaine Lallans 61 - Twa poems, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Lothian, poetry
s aff beech trees; knar-holes snare on page 58

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
yiv jist stepped fut inta eis snare, on page 69

1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
s aff beech trees; knar-holes snare on page 74

1 matches

Perrie, Walter Lallans 73 - The Tod an the Stoat, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
He'd hunt us doon wi snare an gun, on page 53

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
efore. Like the eye-rhyme are/snare, no enough o thon aboot!(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
ud tak a coney or a burd in a snare.
“Ma leg wus fankle’t in a snare oan tha Rocky Moontin,” tha
a boadie frae thonner set tha snare. Whaur ir ye frae, yersel?”
3 matches

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