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The word 'settlers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
settlersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7125
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 1
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
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 settlers in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
is eense spokken bi da Viking settlers, an Scots. He is still braali on page 9
nisin settlement. Hit wis dis settlers at brocht da kye an sheep tae on page 13
bi da descendants o da Jutish settlers), da Wast Saxon Aald English on page 14
livestock brocht bi da Norse settlers. on page 101

5 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ma een northwards. The Norse settlers that came here fae the echth on page 31
inction atween whit he cried 'settlers' an 'colonists' (http://www.w on page 73

2 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ere an awfy lot o Aiberdonian settlers amang the first wave o white on page 51

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
made available tae Protestant Settlers. Bess heard that Isabel Weir, on page 63

1 matches

General Central

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
was brought over by Scottish settlers’, sicweys gettin thaim in t
1 matches

South East (Borders)

The Westender Ins and oots, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
ednae realised juist how mony settlers whae've come tae the Borders
There's been loads o' settlers frae different pairts o' the
2 matches

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