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Use in varieties of Scots

plumber Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.8 5.3 4.8 0 5.8 10.9 0
Number of occurrences1510 3 0 1 1 0
Number of authors11 6 3 1 1

Occurrences of plumber 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

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
lectrician's tubin an dauds o plumber's pottie. Ye pressed a bit po on page 86

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 68 - The Fower Jyners o the Apocalypse, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
flairs i the cludgies for the plumber!" on page 26

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 82 - The Cream Cookie, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Midlothian, prose
insyne thare wis juist twa, a plumber an a young jyner cried Hecky on page 58

3 matches

Letford, William Bevel, (Carcanet 2012 ISBN: 978 1 84777 192 6) Central - Stirling, poetry
The plumber told mi no eh complicate thin
1 matches

@iainnicol tweeted
inna hug their electrician or plumber.(2020) search twitter

@billykayscot tweeted
uckle Chantywrastler can be a plumber as weel.(2020) search twitter

@Chazzbat tweeted
Emailed a plumber for a quote to fix ma washin (2020) search twitter

@weenell3 tweeted
kinnon He's forever calling a plumber oot tae unblock his u-bend ?? (2022) twitter link

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - The Bigger Hoose, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
Dod's the gairdner ...an the plumber an the cheffooer an the gener on page 105

1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
Trades Fortnight fan I wis a plumber but summer holidays fae the m (2020) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
ntin a twa metre stick at the plumber the day(2020) search twitter

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
sity, David wis an apprentice plumber, and da rest wis still at da on page 42

1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
the Snoot, the laist Pairish Plumber, stertit
1 matches

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