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The word 'slavers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
slaversOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1138
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 92.7 2 1
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
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 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of slavers in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
protectan wur slavers on page 9

1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
@helenmoncrieff Aal yin slavers will do it a power o guid!??(2020)

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
lt their ain littlins tae the slavers fur a hauf- croon. Gangs o ta
The slavers' sleekit trade.
2 matches

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
econds a spew o glittie green slavers came fleein oot in a shooer, on page 8
il een and foostie braith and slavers bubblin oot its nine mooths. on page 11

2 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 67 - Clash fae Cauld Hill, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Wad onybody want tae read sic slavers? on page 39

1 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
Allan swallowed the slavers that hid rushed intae his moo
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
n, partially submerged in his slavers.
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
Wi slavers hingin fae his jaw. on page 46

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
Faemy slavers, warlock's spew on page 34
When aw the steam and slavers had gane awa, he keeked intae on page 35

2 matches

Fyall, Aitken Lallans 58 - The Wa-Ganging o the Meinister, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
He slavers ower aw the auld psaums, on page 80

1 matches

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