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The word 'digger'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
diggerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.91310
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 2
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 142.2 5 3
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of digger in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
an or baest, no spikkan o wir digger. on page 64

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. New Lambs, Owld Stone, (Brisk Northerly 2017) Orkney, blog
ir Christmas wae his Japanese digger tae dig oot the found. He wor
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ae the craft o Rashknockerty, Digger an Euan MacPhee.
d Chalmers frae Dunracht telt Digger McPhee the trick tae stop a h
2 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
roon, pintin tae a ploo, an a digger thing, an some kinna dreel, a on page 87

1 matches

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
er' Robertson, the kirk grave-digger, wis brocht tae book wi regar on page 118

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
George Gordon's yellow digger on page 56

1 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
whaur the Kirk Beadle / Graff digger, Mr.Blaickie bade wi
1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Fur A set aff wae Digger the dug here, on page 57

1 matches

Stewart, Kenny The Proota Field, (Facebook 2021) Ulster, poetry
The rumble o the digger came frae up the field ye kno
Pullin the digger efter her and kickin oot the
So the digger scooped oot all the earth bel
3 matches

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
y a grand nighber an a wheeld digger forbye??! https://t.co/JmZbfN (2021) twitter link

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