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The word 'sphere'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sphereOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.81611
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 21 2 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 13.1 10 6
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 sphere in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
ts o the yallo yotun's flowan sphere, an whar thay'll hopp tae fin on page 105

1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
bronze globe statue caad the 'Sphere Within Sphere'. It was giftit on page 7

2 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
oblem and it’s in the public sphere that politics operates. (2020) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
Black Band they shiftit their sphere o operations fer the next wee on page 106

1 matches

General Central

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
o Sheena's poem Mr. Tomato's Sphere maks claer at aa is no weill on page 120

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
syne, sheavin aff pairt o the sphere an flingin materials awgaits
syne, sheavin aff pairt o the sphere an flingin materials awgaits.
p o cloods wheechin aboot its sphere while aneath is a lang, thick
er, is its sma, pairtly rocky sphere sizes wi oor Yird. Tho it isn
4 matches

Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
art bi the courts i the legal sphere, at cheynge taks place. An th
1 matches

Neil, Gabriel The Green Pairty: Holyrood’s nixt opposition?, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
e o left opinion can create a sphere o political debate, openin sp
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
the weaker kintras in its ain sphere o influence, while miscawin R
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
with’ bides strangly in the sphere o Scottish Staunart English (
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
s and plurals, as in spheris (sphere’s); vertewis (virtues); day
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