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The word 'ruler'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
rulerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1108
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 36.3 2 1

Occurrences of ruler in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
chulehoose tackit ontilt. The ruler o this sma empire wis Miss Mc
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
d measured Jessie's feet wi a ruler. “Size four,” he muttered
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Chris picked Laura's ruler up aff her desk an startet ki on page 169

2 matches

Ayrshire

Lehane, Matt Red an Black, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
“archon” is greek for ruler
1 matches

General Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 85 - The Belt, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
ither boy in the face wi his ruler. Retaliation wis swift an a r on page 43

1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
y tae be the neist Protestant ruler.
1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
JProgressive Dinnae thole ony ruler wha disnae abide by the contr (2015) twitter link

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
dah; fer oot o you wull cum a ruler that wull herd ma fowk Israel on page 2
tell ye thïs, he'll mak hïm ruler ower aa he haes. But ïf tha on page 92

2 matches

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