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The word 'zen'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
zenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.583
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 15.3 6 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 zen in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - A Day Weel Spent, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
me. It maun a been ane o thae zen things, like whan ye'r no gie on page 125

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 67 - Clash fae Cauld Hill, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
ys he wis a Taoist, some says Zen Buddhist (an baith thae philo on page 39

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy A Day Weel Spent, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
me. It maun a been ane o thae zen things, like whan ye'r no gie
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Koan, (sandyfleming.org 2005) Central - East Lothian, poetry
I spiered my Zen maister
ein the kittle dysnochtifýin Zen wisdom
Mindin that Zen maisters
3 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
d for, which will be kind o a Zen experience, an mair than mony
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Burns, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
ht, a study o the influence o Zen Buddhism in the novels o Neil on page 55

1 matches

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