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The word 'emerald'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
emeraldOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.7198
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 25.8 10 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 1
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 emerald in Corpus

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Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
lime green, emerald or jade on page 100

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
e wis wearan a cloak, teu, an emerald een. Her black hair wis drawn
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
tea kintra, an the twa green emerald steens that war its een. It w
by the wee yalla idol wi its emerald een, jist the thing tae pit a
idol o Ganesh, wi the glentin emerald een. It hid bin a lang time s
3 matches

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
covered wi emerald green moss on page 5

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
colour tae the place wis the emerald green picture frame that wis on page 72

1 matches

Muir, Glenn Ozsome, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
r that she shuid gang tae the Emerald City whaur The Wizard o Oz wi
œ If ye chum me alang tae the Emerald City, aiblins the Wizard o Oz
went thegither heidin for the Emerald City.
“Come alang wi us tae the Emerald City an see if the Wizard o O
Yella Brick Highroad tae The Emerald City.
9 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
n she's lookin at me. The two emerald circles ir sayin, 'Wit ir yi on page 40

1 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
the gossamer. The dress is of emerald on page 3

2 matches

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