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The word 'sweden'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
swedenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus62011
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 31 7 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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 sweden in Corpus

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Shetland

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
via an Germany - I fan at in Sweden dir wird fur weekend wis helj

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
aa roon the heel o Norway an Sweden inno the Baltic Ocean, throw
1 matches

General Northern

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - A keik at the Swedish game o bandy, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
al exchange atween Scotlan an Sweden at micht explain the closenes
but likely a pucklie cam fae Sweden. The Norse teen muckle oot o
s at the game o bandy reached Sweden (or shinty cam tae Scotlan).
er, monie mair Scots gaed tae Sweden in the centuries efter the No
tae the Swedes for they kent Sweden wes aboot tae tak ower the ru
6 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
C'mon Sweden! Get in tae them. Fae a'body (2018)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
he Scots cultural commonty in Sweden for October.
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
n twa Scandinavians, ane frae Sweden an ane frae Norway. Whan I sp
1 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
An his bluid wis frae kings o Sweden and the Danes, an his wumman on page 13
maun gae an treat wi kings o Sweden and Danemerk, an he mairriet on page 14

4 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 102 - Editorial: Jean Tamson’s Bairns, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
any, Portugal, Finland, Peru, Sweden, plus wark translatit fae Eng on page 9

1 matches

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
eir spellin at hame...thus in Sweden I hae met Crafurds (Crawfurd) on page 10

1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
del micht wark weel eneuch in Sweden whaur fowk i general follae t(2020)

@Sinethugcat tweeted
atton Hence why we're awa tae Sweden as soon as hissel gets a job. (2021) twitter link

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
The tal' men frae Sweden wir nixt on the line, on page 2

1 matches

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