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The word 'calf'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
calfOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.9168
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 19.6 6 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 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) 65.7 2 2
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 54.5 3 1

Occurrences of calf in Corpus

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Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
g wis gittan too near tae her calf, ap meed a spret for the dog. on page 14

1 matches

Miller, Alison The Point o Tinsal, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Orkney, poetry
aboot tae calf, said the baest wis
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
Jock Dow, wi the deid calf's skin wrapped roon him, eeri
....the cloven fit o the deid calf, held oot bi Jock Dow, an syn
iel, happit wi the phosphorus calf skin. Willie Peerie feintit c
ce stude in the moo o't, wi a calf's bottle teet in her haun an
4 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
s a place o pilgrimage in her calf-kintra. Christians said it wi
gh's kenspeckle past. His ain calf-kintra o Sri Lanka micht hae
2 matches

Aberdeen

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
m inno the byre efter the new calf wis born, and he’d gotten t
1 matches

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
oolly thermal socks up to mid calf. I minded readin somewhaur th on page 22

1 matches

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
@simon_brooke How's the wee calf(2020)

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Untitled, (twitter 2021) Ulster - Larne, poetry
rful.) Even when ah tore thon calf muscle ah was niver stuck for
1 matches

@Angelinekking tweeted
en last night ended in a torn calf muscle. I'm off the feet for (2020)

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
hïs feet. Brïng forrit tha calf we wur fattenin up, an kïll on page 97

3 matches

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