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The word 'worker'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
workerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.52418
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 27.1 5 4
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of worker in Corpus

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Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
in me new fun status as a key worker I'm likely earned it onywye! (2021)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
'But she's a graan worker. It wis aboot a year ago she on page 38

1 matches

General Northern

Wood, Evelyn Tales Fae The Doric Side - Carlo, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
n he promised tae be a willin worker. He hid his ain sleepin bothi on page 27

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
or the factor, or ony estate worker, it ended up in a bawlin
1 matches

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
1975 Maybe for a white collar worker, bug you cannae expect a man (2020)

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
e ee kin aways fund a cooncil worker at a burger van or sleepin in (2020) twitter link

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
'It's jist a wee ferm-worker's hoosie,' Miss Honey said. ' on page 177

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Imagine that yw a social worker who has been sent tae intervi on page 169

3 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
, bit ye’d better be a guid worker.”
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
‘’You’re a youth worker?’’
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
textile factory worker n later a seamstress repairin on page 37

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
e been, and Boabby’s a good worker too. Runnin yer ain business
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
is, revertin tae the gaffer / worker dynamic fur a minute.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
cial security numbers, social worker’s case files an ever expand
1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
office in Canary Wharf after worker displays symptoms of coronavi
1 matches

General Central

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
n, no ill-favoured, an a guid worker, an she wis curious aboot his on page 17

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
he Big Blitz by the shipyaird worker and novelist James Barke, Uni
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
ictim jist acause she's a sex worker. Ignorin her richt tae choose(2020)
ist hed a visit fae ma social worker. She telt me she's bin dyin t(2020)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
training, tae becum ae Social Worker.
udge. Thar wur anither estate worker, A think his naem wur
2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
whut the' set afore ye, for a worker shud get hïs wages. Dïnnae on page 87

1 matches

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