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The word 'microsoft'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
microsoftOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.795
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 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 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 microsoft in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

West Central

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
n’ a reid pen till ma work. Microsoft spell checker is wan hing, bu
1 matches

General Central

Eagle, Andy Lallans 59 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
fowk is 'Age of Empires' www.microsoft.com/games/empires whaur ye ha on page 54

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
deetinal word processors like Microsoft Word wirks bi unnerlinin 'mis on page 40

1 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 59 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
fowk is 'Age of Empires' www.microsoft.com/games/empires whaur ye ha on page 54

2 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
undart English was the VHS or Microsoft o the late Middle Ages. It wa on page 56

1 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 74 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
ched as a rival tae Yahoo! an Microsoft's Hotmail. This ‘free’ be
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@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
satisfy the binary theology o Microsoft aye an even i the poshity o H(2020)

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