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The word 'venus'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
venusOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.13310
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.2 6 4
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 27.9 21 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) 88.3 1 1
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 venus in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
exander Scott – Continent o Venus – tae read a swatch frae.
ive, cheengin inno the planet Venus, tae heist up plumes like a b
ft. Auld bodachs say he becam Venus an tis telt that finiver yon
3 matches

(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
en aw luve's leir frae Leddie Venus, A've seen monie a Cupid, an on page 46

1 matches

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
cried names like Mars an' the Venus, sich bonny names. They says on page 10

2 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
'Venus hersel took me for lover: The on page 4
ti the Temple o Venus, or vice versa.' I saw heids on page 72

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ea", "a lean to", "the Rokeby Venus [wi a ] ...monstrous great pl
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Venus, Mars - and wistful fields a on page 7

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
al pieces, a statuette ay the Venus de Milo, somebody — ah cann
1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
o the Yird, Jupiter, Mars, an Venus, there are hunders o ithers, on page 18

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
e neist planet we come tae is Venus – the greenhoose warld. It
it will swallae up Mercury an Venus until its gird is the length
Venus
Venus wis lang the planet o legend
eauty an love. The Latin word Venus (tae hae a sexual ettle efter
20 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Venus danders ain on page 40

1 matches

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