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The word 'pensioner'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pensionerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7129
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 23.7 2 1
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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 pensioner in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
id t'imsel, ma dream date's a pensioner an she's faain te bits afore on page 61

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
o her gairden a block o fower pensioner’s hooses backed ontae it. T
the hoose so she’d use her pensioner’s bus pass and ging awa mai
2 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 84 - The Ferlie, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
'But ye canna dae aat. A'm a pensioner.' on page 78

2 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
It wis an auld age pensioner that wis haein the roup. He h
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
dding! And yon prices!! I'm a pensioner! ?? https://t.co/aMfFMz6llL(2016)
@MotherwellFC I'm a pensioner and Support the dandy dons bi(2018)

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
'Ah'm a pensioner!' on page 14

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 82 - Nae Guid Ettle, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
efter he wis oot the door. A pensioner like hessel cuid screive whan on page 16

1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
tak awa free TV licences fae pensioner war veterans. Sheer hypocrisy(2020)

@rattlecans tweeted
either another Ma or an auld pensioner sitting oot at her back door (2022) twitter link

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