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The word 'nar'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
narOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.5155
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 42 4 3
DOR - General Northern 35.5 8 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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 nar in Corpus

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Aberdeen

McGregor, Iain Lallans 77 - Farquhar, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
d saunpit, neist the Pit-cowp nar Embrae, thare wis causey-clas on page 99

2 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 57 - Mac, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Doric, prose
orn days, A've niver been sae nar tae murther. on page 27

1 matches

Murray, Campbell Dinna Quat, (Doric Future 2020) Doric - Aberdeen, poetry
’ ye can niver be shair foo nar ye are;
1 matches

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
crack aboot Loch Skeen, bit A nar
“Ay, bit nae ower nar the lip, nor ye micht faw in!
t ower the tap o’t. Traikin nar
nd lappert the watter tae the nar
twa reengin hauf pund an twa nar
7 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
n in thare wur mair veesitors nar seeck fowk. A jist settlet ma
1 matches

General Central

Dareau, Mareau Lallans 59 - The Dictionar o the Aulder Scottis Leid (DOST), (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
Tongue, (DOST) hes, eftir gey nar auchtie year been brocht till on page 59

2 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
k. The buirial grund itsel is nar eneuch tae bei ca’d square,
1 matches

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