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The word 'dealer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dealerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.7159
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 26.6 6 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of dealer 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.

Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gallows Ha - The Weather Dance, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
e siller passed tae this owld dealer. on page 28

1 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
e siller passed tae this owld dealer on page 154

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ide, wi Big Tam Laggeran, the dealer, sprauchled ower it. Tho his
1 matches

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - Beggerey’s Greenhoose, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
ndon wis some high-flyin airt dealer fae Chelsea an he’d asked i
a couple o days when the airt dealer returned. This time he didnae
is porch windae when the airt dealer went awa. How he describes it
haein a fly cup when the airt dealer went aff in his car. Auld Beg
e sell the thing tae the airt dealer all along, but it wis his wif
5 matches

@cligeey tweeted
@HairyAngus Dinna ken a stick dealer oot at wye(2020)

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
the Braw Car Dealer on page 16

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
our cousin wis a big mad drug dealer that's awready pure kilt sumd on page 133

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
here. Noo that Jamesy's a big dealer n sells nine-bars n swedgers' on page 5

1 matches

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
r a purveyor ay fine wines, a dealer ay classic cars or a pedlar a
1 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
bodie culd see it wis a daith dealer. Bit he keipit the sheen o ha on page 14

1 matches

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