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The word 'davidson'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
davidsonOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.82612
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21 2 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 30.1 6 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 4
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 davidson in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
indae o the schuleroom. Dandy Davidson, Steenhillock's orraloon, wis
t rattens in Leddrach bedd in Davidson's ae crazy rukk, the hale pla
a bricht skirp o bluid. Dandy Davidson wheeched it awa.
the Jock Dow's set repon. Tam Davidson, three quarts bleezin afore t
4 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
lphins! An I cud hae a Harley Davidson an veesit aa the Cultural Sec
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
fower. An aa fit for? Geordie Davidson eesed tae say the lucky eens on page 18

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
lotta dirt,’ mummled Brian Davidson. But aabody kent he wis an at
1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Ozsome, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
chkins (a race o twa fit Ruth Davidson clones).
1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Radge Against the Machine: Deid Wirds, Deid Warlds, an Why Scots Maitters, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
iv some value, is that a Ruth Davidson or a Jackson Carlaw stairts p
1 matches

Davidson, Alistair The Mitterand Plan, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
Alistair Davidson is a political activist, scre
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
erfu Wee Shoutie (a.k.a. Ruth Davidson) is fer managin tae get mair on page 8
on tae the likes o Wee Tankie Davidson an ither lickspittles o Engli on page 45

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Glasgow

Durie, Nick The Best o the Baith o Thaim, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
Davidson, en route tae a soiree
un tae hae a collogue wi Ruth Davidson at a soiree ower at a freend
advance copy’ wittins that Davidson was weel awar o whit was tae
ferendum the zealous Loyalist Davidson had haen a braw inside (far b
hree parts of the country.” Davidson gaed on tae say, haein seen a
6 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
the faimily o Soutar Johnnie Davidson wha maks an unforgettable app on page 23

1 matches

General Central

Puchowski, James Frae Norrowa ower the faem, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
k like Scots Tory leader Ruth Davidson, wha also happens tae be ma n
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
n surge an the emergence Ruth Davidson’s Tories as the main oppost
ther on Unionism. For aw that Davidson (an Dugdale) cries that we ma
ental issue i Scots politics. Davidson micht miscaw the fack that th
3 matches

@iainnicol tweeted
_graeme Lol nae chance. Laird Davidson is aw aboot the gravy train.(2020)
“as depute I am pleased Ruth Davidson has accepted my request...”.(2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
Jist saw Ruth Davidson oan the bus. Several fowk had(2021)

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