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The word 'sorrow'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sorrowOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.42816
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 3
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 9.8 4 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 2
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 2
LAL - General Central 14.4 11 3
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 sorrow in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
e wae oot fear and hatred and sorrow. Think o the sounds o the bir on page 20

1 matches

Skea, Bessie Gallows Ha - Earth-bound, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
wae sorrow achan doon like rain I traid on page 24

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Cam a winter and wi hid cam sorrow The first that l''d kent in m on page 66

1 matches

Shetland

Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
, roosty hull, John filled wi sorrow as his
elow him numbed his legs. His sorrow damned him.
2 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow
and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth childr
2 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ldo nor Craig seem tae pey ma sorrow much attention. And so, it's on page 78

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Deid Come Nevermas, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
The sorrow crap of butter he gat.
And sorrow a spark of it wald yirn.
2 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Sorrow an care encompass me.
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
eh feel nae sorrow. on page 91

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
wis deid the puir lass died o sorrow on the spot. An on page 118

1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
dden an unanticipated wave ae sorrow comes crashin doon oan me. Li
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
it wis mair o a relief than a sorrow tae thaim aa when he tuik an on page 78

1 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
hyr sad sang that soundit lyk sorrow... the laverok maid melody up on page 23

1 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
Flowing like tears o sorrow on page 40

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
I sorrow like the nichtingale, on page 17
Sorrow clings ti me like dew. on page 18
a Queen o Sorrow still! on page 19
grief, an sufferin, an sorrow, regret. on page 30
Sorrow, pain, whit else dae I ken? on page 35

9 matches

Cameron, Peter Lallans 59 - Yowdendrift / Gin I Kent, (Lallans Magazine 2021) Central, poetry
wi the stound o sae muckle sorrow? on page 139

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
when sorrow is countless as grains of san on page 73

1 matches

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