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The word 'murderer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
murdererOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.61814
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.8 5 4
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 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 murderer in Corpus

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Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
a mass murderer.' on page 137

1 matches

Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
Imagine referring tae bein a murderer as a 'flaw'. https://t.co/Ytp(2021)

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Like a murderer happit wi a cloot on page 15

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
he same sentence o a witch, a murderer, or a mutineer in the time o
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
it and said the ‘Double Tap Murderer’ hid moved ontae a new weap
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
tae fa, let alane fa wis the murderer!!(2020)

General Northern

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
ti mak up mi myne if he wis a murderer or nae. on page 8

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
l. Grub fit enough fur a mass murderer oan death row. Oan a on page 115

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
An apprentice murderer: you cuid kill, aa riche! on page 23

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
A murderer's banes in gibbet-airns;
A murderer's banes in gibbet-airns;
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
rabber' is anither word for a murderer an in chapter 9, Dr Lanyon's
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Appin Murderer, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, prose
laddie cried “There’s the murderer!” an’ sterted tae run eft
1 matches

Glasgow

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
me tae death. They say yer a murderer Da, a really slow one. Killin on page 41

1 matches

General Central

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
wedded ti this murderer, this Darnley, on page 19
ma fiercest enemy! Rizzio's murderer on page 22
'm a Stewart, sure, but nae a murderer. on page 35

4 matches

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