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The word 'sawmill'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sawmillOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.894
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 26.6 6 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
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 sawmill in Corpus

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General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
sawmill for a load o firewid. Ere is
xtra loads o firewid fae this sawmill. Fin he heard fit the foreman
sawmill wis sayin, Jonsar Eck kent he
an selt his load, phoned the sawmill tae see if they hid a
e wid as a stanby, so fin the sawmill hidnae a load tae him he
5 matches

@cligeey tweeted
ncedref Fish Ladders at Kelly sawmill firewid boxes a wid think ats(2020)

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ethin. Ah get it free fae the sawmill.' on page 16

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
wagon tae bei taen intil the sawmill i the Hoscote Ludge wud, it t
ht it his uncle, Mr. Bain’s sawmill yonner. George,
2 matches

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