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The word 'haircut'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
haircutOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.62116
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 3
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 haircut in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie Cheerio for eenoo . . ., (Shetland Times 2011) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
entit afore. An my first iver haircut wis memorable an aa. Thankful
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ilian: a helluva savage kinna haircut at wisna oan yer heid. on page 82

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
he comes inte the shop fir a haircut, it'll bi, 'Fit like the day, on page 7
ntitled te a wee bittie aff a haircut. An syne, fir a sma, addition on page 12

3 matches

General Northern

Maitland, Andrew Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Auld Mannie, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
d amount o siller for his new haircut, and there was nae wye he was on page 72

1 matches

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
cast muckle. But they need a haircut ilcky month or twa. We eesed (2020)
e wife, dinna tell her) and a haircut. Reckon e Turra economy hiz f(2020)

(South) East Central

Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
here nixt tae stretch wi the haircut that stawnds oot like a sare
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
Booked a fancy barbers for a haircut. There was a choice of Mark o(2020)

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ting gear - never paid fir a haircut fir 40 yeers noo lol (2021) twitter link
@grant53231219 r u gaun fir a haircut the morn - yule b needin yin (2021) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ged in a field - an a weirdo haircut that wis long on wan Side an on page 126

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
yokel's haircut, his ill-fittin claes, his bi on page 117

1 matches

Edinburgh

Purdie, David C. Lallans 59 - Terry Fae Brooklyn, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Aryshire, prose
i a bottle o Chianti, a bath, haircut, shave, an a ride for less th on page 136

1 matches

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
in he turned right it wis the haircut, left he’d chickened oot an
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
know if ah need a shite or a haircut man.’ he sais, an lookin at
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
"Ye're needin a haircut," said the Hatter. He'd been on page 44

1 matches

General Central

@alistairdunn tweeted
me through andy carrolls new haircut?(2015)

@billykayscot tweeted
e tell ye that I got ma first haircut in fower month the day. It fe(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
ersel up by giein Irish a mad haircut. ??(2020)