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The word 'heater'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
heaterOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1139
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 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 heater in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
roblim we thi van weis et thi heater didna wurk. Of coarse we got on page 50

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
apart fae a two bar electric heater in fit hid been her mither’
1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
icht ma wife drives aboot wee heater set at Ibiza temperature(2020)

(South) East Central

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
n Avenue we had a wee parafin heater in the kitchen an that's whau
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
cked a mug o’ water oan the heater! There wis a slosh, sizzle, f
1 matches

Glasgow

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
eaches a hawn oot towards the heater under the mirror nearby tae c on page 1

1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
t and almost shite masel. The heater’s oan a timer. It’s aff b
1 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
'. Whit are ye noo? A central heater or a peat bog? If ye've got a on page

2 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ol me doon. It's like huvin a heater attached tae ma body. on page xiv
s the cold, so she turned the heater oan while ah went ootside fur on page 92

2 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
ear tae turn on the immersion heater. Had a hot bath on a Sunday n(2020)
Ah hed tae pit on ma wee fan heater last nicht. Anely fer an oor,(2020)

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