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The word 'valentine'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
valentineOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.43412
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.2 6 1
WCE - West Central 41.4 9 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 2
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of valentine in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Me Valentine on page 9
's the light o me life and me Valentine. on page 38

3 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Group Love Poem for Valentine's Day on page 123

1 matches

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Happy Valentine Day a'bidy, here's ma sweethe(2016)
bonnie City an Shire - Happy Valentine’s Day abidy! xx https://t.co(2017)
Hiv a great Saint Valentine nicht wi the ae ye lo'e an if(2018)
Happy Valentine’s Day fowks, ah wish ye muck(2019)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
he needna bother sendin him a Valentine neist ear.’
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Will ye still be sendin me a valentine, on page 135

1 matches

Wilde, Jacqueline Jay Valentine Tango, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
Valentine Tango
Ye bought me last Valentine’s.
2 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
h tae fit! I forgot aboot yon Valentine’s as last time I gave Jessie(2020)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ther's Fluffy Toys" bi Rachel Valentine P6C, again o Campie Primary S
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 114, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ic side tae it kinna like St. Valentine's day sae the freebie paper u
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
It wis Rachel Valentine (P7c) that won the Scots Tung
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 117, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ner o the competition, Rachel Valentine P7C, wi the Scots Tung Quaich
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
B) wad be 1st Equal an Rachel Valentine (P6C) wad be Rinner Up.
Rachel Valentine P6C Rinner Up
2 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
It's Valentine's Day, an the postman has bee on page 109
t ma da wis tryin tae leave a Valentine on the counter fur ma ma with on page 110
tae buy a dozen red roses fur Valentine's Day but he said he'd need t on page 111
n fae ma ma an da fur huvin a Valentine when ah got in fae school an on page 114

9 matches

General Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth For the fat romantics, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
hiv decidit tae play Cupid on Valentine’s day in fower o their ootl
Greggs favorits, but wi a wee Valentine twist! Fir exaimple, this is
2 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
It's Valentine's Day themorra! Compare Carol (2018) twitter link
en whit a 'poor-oot' is? This Valentine's Day, research traditional S (2018) twitter link

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
@Lagganeer Japers! It's no Valentine's tae the morra! Tak a keek t (2015) twitter link