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The word 'butcher'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
butcherOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus17.85729
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 26.2 8 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 47.4 4 2
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 3
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 15.3 6 3
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 27.1 5 4
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 13.4 10 6
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 2
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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 154.6 11 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of butcher in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Sookan the butcher's peenie on page 8

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Maggie Tak this notie tae the butcher There's a powen in yer baggie on page 15

3 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
said. "Wi'd the fisher an the butcher's on page 87

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
a wealthy man...a man wi sax butcher's shops. Ye'll mebbe need te on page 48
yon muckle, fat Mabel fae the butcher's keepit askin ma up. Ah cann on page 85

2 matches

Hutchison, Pat If I Catch Ye I'll Eat Ye, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
nything else hid survived the butcher's shop o slaachter. He thocht
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
hiv they nae showed Bloo Toon butcher aat Peterheid makin an affa f(2015)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
de, lik a raw o sassages in a butcher's windae. Bit at least the sn on page 32

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - The Bigger Hoose, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
's MacTavish gaein in tae the butcher's!" an he pulls ower tae the on page 105
ae pit oot fan he cam oot the butcher's?" on page 110

2 matches

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
The butcher mannies hid a' the wimen in a
1 matches

General Northern

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
jist a year or twa afore, the butcher wis tellin me. It maks ye win on page 8

1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ooks like a cross between Pat Butcher n Archie Knox! Must be trying(2019)
Michty me! Archie (Pat Butcher) Knox did nae last lang! #gyp(2019)

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
nt ma savin's aht e bakers, e butcher, e card shop (Christmas card (2020)
rth nippin in by Sheridan's e butcher.(2020)

North East Central

Heather, Alistair The Body Snatchers, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
Burke’s the butcher, Hare’s the thief,
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
is precedit wi a "t": batch, butcher, catch, crutch, ditch, Dutch,
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
an haddock frae the sea, guid butcher mait fur the weel-aff that ha
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
"a butcher's parcel o countries an regio
hair muckle retreat, that the butcher squadron haed been ordered up
2 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
anymore of this. Im away tae butcher some wid. With a sore back, k(2020)
@JeanTelfer744 I dinnae just butcher bits of wid yi know ????(2020)

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
The legs, hung out lik butcher's bluidy jynts, on page 128

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
ed tae make them wae the good butcher's steak links fae the shoap o on page 8

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
r schemes. Finnegan's da is a butcher n done well so he always hus on page 8

1 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
eans? Imagine seein yer uncle butcher yer big cousin wi a samurai s on page 175

1 matches

Grae, Emma Billy's Ghost Dug, (liarsleague.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
fae a dug - or mair likely a butcher’s bin.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
ed tae make them wae the good butcher’s steak links fae the shoap
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
braxy yowes ... an that foul butcher Earlshaa haes hackit aff the on page 52

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
In at the local butcher's shoap, on page 24

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
a dug wi a bane chored oot a butcher's shoap. on page 108

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
s said she wis as strong as a butcher's dog and proved it when she on page 39
artment. Ma leg could go in a butcher's window. The doctor says the on page 86

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
but like a bowsey butcher on a puggled horse on page 19
a butcher's parcel o counties and regio on page 70

2 matches

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 73 - Banes, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Ower a thousant butcher's banes on page 75

1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
usePat there's a muckle great butcher's apron on the corner garden (2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
Johnson chynged his name tae 'Butcher Cumberland'.(2020)

@fairpechtoot tweeted
yscot @ScotsScriever Ma local butcher yaises the term 'ham hough' -(2016)

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 73 - A Whein Auld Chinese Saws, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
r is lik peltin an ill dug wi butcher meat on page 83

1 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Pringle the Butcher frae Hawick whae hed the tena
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
nner foondations crumnilt, as butcher builders fleed. on page 14

1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
- Ah've seen mair meat oan a butcher's pencil!(2020)

General Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne A Furst Readin Book in Ulster Scots, (Evertype 2011) Ulster, weans
The oul wumman met a butcher. Shae sed, | “Butcher, butc
. Shae sed, | “Butcher, butcher, kill the ox. The ox’ll naw
ae get hame the nicht.” The butcher sed,
sed, “Rope, rope, heng the butcher.
The butcher’ll naw kill the ox. The ox
9 matches

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