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The word 'stromness'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
stromnessOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.897
ORK - Orkney 69.6 7 5
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 stromness in Corpus

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Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
ae haed a show tae present in Stromness Toon Hall for the St Magnus I on page 34

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
In Stromness there's a custom that, fur wa on page 29
Halt a while in Stromness wi hids quaint owld cobbled s on page 37

3 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Stromness Academy, Davie Ward's bus on page 42

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
fae as far apart as Brechin, Stromness and Brae hiv been phonan in t
1 matches

Lamb, Gregor Lamb’s Tales, (The Orkney Dictionary 2005) Orkney, prose
mither and faither tuk me tae Stromness in the car. We walkid aboot s
1 matches

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
£38 ??)... An fondly min on Stromness shoppin wik wi the pipe ban, (2020) twitter link

General Central

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
Days later ah reached Stromness whaur folk taen peety on me w

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