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The word 'reign'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
reignOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.21411
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 1
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 5
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 reign in Corpus

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Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
May du aye reign among wis; may on page 93
it again afore da Göd Man's reign. An he lifted da cup an gied on page 143
be dir licht an wi him dey'll reign firivir. on page 173

4 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
her cronies & I've got a free reign tae dee fit I want. 1st stop (2018)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
"Tyranny nae mair shall reign on page 8

1 matches

Crawford, Ross Eemis Stane 1 - Ane Dialog betwix King James VI, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, script
e fair and weel? Fowk caw his reign a Gowden Age, dae they no? on page 11

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
ir ain imperial languages tae reign supreme ower
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
terin aw that grows unner its reign on page 13

1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
'Kings dinna awn things, They reign ower them. It isna the same a on page 47

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
t inklins o Jones's laithsome reign. The herness-room at the end on page 6

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
tae reign ees braid high street on page 33

1 matches

Matheson, Ann Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
cotland, frae Alexander III's reign tae 1603, maks a gurlie kilte on page 126

1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
Read aboot the reign o Mary Queen o Scots, an asse (2020) twitter link

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