A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

cleaner Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words10 12.2 9.6 0 0 0 8.8
Number of occurrences3123 6 0 0 0 2
Number of authors14 8 4 2

Occurrences of cleaner in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Robertson, James Naebody'd Seen Him, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
, someone caught him at it, a cleaner. She gave him a look, a smile on page 14

1 matches

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2003 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
s cunt's too tight tae hire a cleaner, even though the place is mak on page 60
SAMMY THE CRIME SCENE CLEANER on page 103

3 matches

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
Thay'll no get any cleaner wance yer gaun. on page 46

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
m a bit underdressed tae be a cleaner?" on page 83

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ough: she also doubles as the cleaner, the auxiliary nurse, an the on page 33
, Cause Missus Auldhill's the cleaner it wid be her that has tae pi on page 98
ad tae take a job as a toilet cleaner, How could he no've been a ro on page 99
e knew ma da wis noo a toilet cleaner. She musta thought it wis the on page 100
somethin better than a toilet cleaner. on page 101

5 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
ot here in the countryside is cleaner than the sooty shite in Thist on page 3

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
willnae be lang. She's a rare cleaner. on page 60
tae bear. She micht be a rare cleaner, but she wouldnae let hur sis on page 80
d shite. It wouldnae kill the cleaner tae wipe: it aff. The smell o on page 83
Faither Murphy should gie his cleaner the sack, ah hink. Ah've a sw on page 114
she wis aroond. She's a rare cleaner. Ma cupboard's chock-full o d on page 118

5 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
a bottle o thon disinfectant cleaner,' the delivery boy wes tellt: on page 72

2 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
and a much better standard ae cleaner air. And fifteen minutes late
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ma mind. ‘’Your mum is a cleaner at Leith Surgery, right?
1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
lot fresher, and the seas ur cleaner??. ??.(2020) search twitter

Doric

Gray, Kathleen Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Ootlin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
ares, an then he wis a school cleaner. Her granny wis a nurse an wi on page 57

1 matches

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Furst Time, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
erin if she’s goat a windae cleaner. Say we’re gettin addresses
re gettin addresses for a new cleaner stertin in this area. She’l
t, like the day there’s nae cleaner in, or the day she huz her ha
3 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ntly showing me a mini vacuum cleaner aat goes in yer lug an sucks (2020) search twitter

@cligeey tweeted
73Bain @BrewDog Mair ye drink cleaner the planet better get yokit(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
TANT), offys dichtèr (OFFICE CLEANER), destrick nurse (DISTRICT NU
1 matches

Stewart, Kenny The Proota Field, (Facebook 2021) Ulster, poetry
fore and reeked o Jeyes fluid cleaner
1 matches

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