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The word 'highlander'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
highlanderOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.586
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 92.7 2 1
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of highlander in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
y were ana. Dad in his Gordon Highlander’s uniform wi his medals on
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Free Gordon Highlander Story about Doric spiking Abe(2016)

General Northern

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
He's nae even a Highlander. He's fae the Central Belt. H (2022) twitter link

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Tartan Tourism nae mair, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
eein, a cafe cried the Hungry Highlander an a hotel pub wi tartan carp
Sporrans, Wild Thistle an The Highlander. It is the epitome o a clichÃ
2 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
er oot Granton wey cawed 'The Highlander'. No jist himself though. He' on page 181
ack ootside tae the taxi, The Highlander is a notorious boozer in Edin on page 182

2 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
ettin up another joint in the Highlander packet. The slab ae Tennent's on page 10

1 matches

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