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The word 'barber'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
barberOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1107
ORK - Orkney
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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)

Occurrences of barber in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
dy fir anither busy day in is barber's shop, Jist the Usual. on page 8
"Ah'm the best barber aroon, an at reasonable month on page 11

2 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Lenny Payne is a barber near i'Castlegate on page 126

2 matches

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
APs. You cannae be an artisan barber called Dave. ??(2020)

Ayrshire

Wilson, Rab Lallans 85 - Roads, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, poetry
Fields striped lik barber's poles, on page 10

1 matches

General Central

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - review, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
ae a Cyrano de Bergerac, 'The Barber Figaro' or 'The Chippit Chant on page 109

1 matches

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
Alloo me tae introduce the barber surgeon ... A man wi knowledg

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
HAWICK'S NUMBER ONE BARBER on page 9

2 matches

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