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The word 'miser'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
miserOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.652
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 1
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of miser in Corpus

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West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
race cracks wi a ticht-fistit miser wha pits furrit sindry airgum on page 103
He's lik thon rich Athenian miser wha luikt doon his neb at whi on page 106
en ah'm tellin ye no tae be a miser on page 108
ticht-fistit grippy miser. Some think he's great! Ither on page 110

4 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Deil, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
and sic a fear grippit at her miser's
1 matches

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