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The word 'sunset'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sunsetOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.43430
ORK - Orkney 49.7 5 5
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21.9 2 1
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 49.9 4 3
SWE - South West (Galloway) 55.6 4 4
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sunset in Corpus

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Orkney

Sclater, Kathryn Gallows Ha - The chapel by the burn, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
dis a buddy weat, dreedan the sunset? on page 7

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
ows glowan, reed and gold, in sunset's fiery light. on page 48

1 matches

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Me luve is like a sunset's on page 121

1 matches

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Blue skies fae sunrise tae sunset on page 130

1 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Homebrew Sunset on page 136

1 matches

Shetland

Facebook link (Shetland on Camera 2016) Shetland
da golden rays o da Scatness sunset

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
Tae onybody efter sunset on Setterday nicht
1 matches

Shearer, Gillian Skitin Oan Thin Ice, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2019) Doric - Alford, prose
loch aa bonny an pink in the sunset. He wis yon upset he felt his
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ear The Doric twang spiken in Sunset Song loon @IanPiriepod yer WW(2015)

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
Sunset Song an the Terminators on page 3

2 matches

General Northern

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
o Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s ‘Sunset Song’)
Sunset Song
2 matches

@cligeey tweeted
terrace the nicht watchin the sunset https://t.co/GzYhTOLvPB(2020)

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
huv parked tae sit an let the sunset feed her een. Ay hungry fur s on page 1

1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Bi sunset the last Land Rover hud left on page 39

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
a pert in a productioun o ‘Sunset Song’, an, as late as 1988,
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
e thon yin, hair ridin on the sunset like strands o clood abuin th on page ix
Nicker pink as a shepherd's sunset on page 45

2 matches

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
So, ride intae yer sunset wae yer crown abune yer heid, on page 73

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
adin o Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song an its wab o Doric. Chri on page 58

1 matches

Watt, George T. Lallans 73 - Red on Maroon, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
like nichtfa efter a rid sunset on page 111

1 matches

astrothsknot The Auld Man O Jerah, (archiveofourown.org 2018) Central, prose
through aw the shades ay the sunset and the sunrise.
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
Arbikie is gey close tae Sunset Song kintrae an Lewis Grassic(2020)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Enhancing natures red sunset on page 47

1 matches

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
the sunset lyke the pairtin o auld feres
in the crammasie sunset---
2 matches

@officialAliRed tweeted
). Time for a wee cycle afore sunset. ????????? https://t.co/lobmQ(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
d-moan in the chimley, or the sunset ower the moss on page 18

1 matches

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
when sunset descends in his marvelous eye on page 43

1 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - The Stert ae World War III?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
The scenery here wis stunnin, sunset o’er the Dalmatian Alps jis
1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
oolie nor doonpour. Jist this sunset. Mair nor eneuch tae fire up (2020)

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
tharna play unner a buttercup sunset.
1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
An staun tae watch the sunset there. on page 38

1 matches

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