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Use in varieties of Scots

engineer Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words10.6 11.3 6 0 0 41.3 17.7
Number of occurrences3422 4 0 0 4 4
Number of authors11 7 1 2 1

Occurrences of engineer in Corpus

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Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ven though he wis a well-paid engineer at Yarrows. He wis too busy d on page 50

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
the chief engineer on the Starship Enterprise on page 70

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
It's a sair fecht tae 'engineer' a shift in the wey fowk yais
1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Nae engineer
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
intit tae spick til, the site engineer, bit he wis ayweys shut insid
The engineer, a slicht man, wis startlet a
“Ay-y-y,” sayed the engineer, slawly. “There wis a verti
The engineer leukit at him in disbelief.
d come ower whan he heard the engineer’s vyce raised. He collectit
16 matches

Steele, Gregor When Scotty said “Scunner”, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
Wis a word frae Engineer Scott.
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
urgh well done tae kennie the engineer and all the people who have w (2020) twitter link

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
is first sea voyage as ship's engineer on the Blue Star Line.
in the toon, tae be a ship's engineer an sail the muckle oceans. He
muckle oceans. He hid won his engineer's ticket wi nae devaul fur th
3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
“We canna afford tae pye an engineer tae sort it.”
1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ae Mechanical Engineer (gearbox expert, accordin tae
biggit fur the Engineer whae wis i chairge o the Yill
2 matches

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
een Robert Stephenson railway engineer hailed fae NE AND Robert Stev (2020) twitter link

Ulster

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
The Ullans engineer on page 43

4 matches

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