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The word 'killer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
killerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.22318
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 92.7 2 2
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.4 7 6
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 killer in Corpus

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Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
ken she's no witch, no child killer. Tell her...' Bit I couldn't on page 20

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
ore the laast twatree year. A killer, a mistry, an noo a godssend. on page 26

1 matches

Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 60 - Da Odyssey (1-75), (Lallans Magazine 2002) Shetland, poetry
wi Hermes, da glig-eed giant-killer,
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
da merest chance o spottin a killer whale let alone seein one ???(2016)
I hear there's killer whales headin nort fae #Sumbu(2016)

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
the coals for nae catchin the killer. Poor man hid jist teen it on
1 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ds seem tae laugh at ony weed killer sprayed on em. In fact they a(2017)

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
try and serve us up tae thae killer cuddies." Hercules grabbed hi on page 35

1 matches

Heather, Alistair The Body Snatchers, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
eathered flesh o this hideous killer in the toun museum on the Roy
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ld gee an orgasm tae a fuckin killer whale so it could." on page 65
. The bordome's been a fuckin killer, likes. Only saviour is that on page 142

2 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
interest, a psychotic serial killer wis jist whit they needit. Th
nte Exclusive”, “Deranged Killer At Large”, that wis some o
2 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
fuckin bowel cancer. A silent killer’’ ah inform him as ah mum
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
w bastard. Feel like a serial killer or suhin. Ah feel like it's m on page 60

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
r a michty Dreadnaucht hunter killer on page 71

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Eemis Stane 2 - Editorial: A Twa Wey Street, (Eemis Stane 2023) Central, prose
s a leid a leid. They are the killer apps o Scots, its USP. Withoo on page 3

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
the richt medicine, TB wis a killer, an aabody wis feart o it. Sp
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
the windows, that stuff is a killer nae pun intended ??(2020)

@SusiBriggs1 tweeted
ked again. ?? it was a career killer moment.(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
referrin tae the transgender killer as "he". It's really pissin m(2020)
e, but Ah dinnae think he's a killer. He jist gets aff on aa the a(2020)

@changed_days tweeted
@D4RNS_ @D4RNS Which is a killer, plus anybody a have refollow (2021) twitter link

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