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The word 'cleaner'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cleanerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.73114
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 1
WCE - West Central 23 5 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 21.7 4 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 13.4 10 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of cleaner in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

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)

General Northern

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

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

(South) East Central

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

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

West Central

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

Edinburgh

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

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 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

General 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

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

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

General Ulster

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

Synthetic (no region)

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

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