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The word 'ulsterscots'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ulsterscotsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus632097
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 2616.1 16 1
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 58.1 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster 4748.6 167 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of ulsterscots in Corpus

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West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

@fairfaaye tweeted
note on the C Major scale?? #ulsterscots #FunFact https://t.co/gCA0xHz(2020)
also heard as ‘thraveless’ #ulsterscots #livinglanguage https://t.co/(2020)
low’ rather than ‘gloom’. #ulsterscots https://t.co/b2gdewjO0A(2020)
Fair faa ye! Welcome! #ulsterscots https://t.co/aP6j2eWMqn(2020)
"juke", "neb", "wee", "wain" #ulsterscots #DerryGirls https://t.co/Kj14(2020)
and 11 other occurrences.

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
The Greek; wi UlsterScots an quill, An little fuss! on page 20

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

@Angelinekking tweeted
wheen o words and idioms in #ulsterscots! Thank you to the @UlsterScot(2020)
an shirt’ll dae him. #scots #ulsterscots. A wheen o wheekers here in t(2020)

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
by night or even. #Halloween #UlsterScots (2018) twitter link
he 1916 "Gulder Oot" tae the #UlsterScots! We've aye been quare an proo (2016) twitter link
#1916Proclamation in #UlsterScots guldered oot by Great Granda (2015) twitter link
.@AlexMaskeyMLA in #UlsterScots: "We hae gied a quare lot o m (2015) twitter link
taun ocht the Scotchies say. #UlsterScots for aye #indyref (2014) twitter link
and 160 other occurrences.

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
Strangford Lough, from 1940. #ulsterscots #community #tradition https:/(2020)