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The word 'wigtown'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wigtownOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.794
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 26.6 6 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of wigtown in Corpus

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West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Wigtown Bard Poems on page 85
A souch o Wigtown's past in his greeting. on page 87
An aiblins Wigtown fowk will say o him; on page 88
Wigtown hus aye, tae me, been dear; on page 92

6 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
a puir weemin on the sands at Wigtown), puir Bess wis driven near t on page 62

1 matches

General Central

Dareau, Mareau Lallans 59 - The Dictionar o the Aulder Scottis Leid (DOST), (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
on tae Prestwick, an abin aa, Wigtown, whar the wird wes applyit ta on page 59

1 matches

Facebook link ( 2020) Central
on an Margaret McLachlan frae Wigtown in Galloway wur sentenced tae

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