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The word 'stranraer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
stranraerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.9138
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 97.6 7 2
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of stranraer in Corpus

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(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
en air at a football match at stranraer - says it all 2 me ! (2021) twitter link

West Central

Alston, Connor THE BLACK-EYED CHILDREN OF SCOTLAND, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
ory) aboot a couple stayin in Stranraer oan an empty street ‘n’ a
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
the Solway an Strathaven tae Stranraer - throu-oot that simmer an t on page 44

1 matches

General Central

@MartinBroon tweeted
s ago A wuz escorted, (by the Stranraer polis), oot a grun fur the fu(2019)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
ADDRESS TAE STRANRAER OYSTER FESTIVAL on page 77

2 matches

Ross, Derek Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Born in Stranraer, sae originally a 'Cleyholer' on page 189
Stranraer, at hame tae the micht o Forf on page 195
O Stranraer's name had tae be there, Viki on page 201

4 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Daft Days, (Lidl 2020) Central, poetry
Fae Stranraer tae Sanquhar, Thornhill tae T
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
e, the guillemots flew in fae Stranraer an did welcome them. When the
1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
I follae Stranraer mysel: hooaniver, thon Celtic (2016) twitter link