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The word 'laundry'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
laundryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4117
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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) 164.2 5 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of laundry in Corpus

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Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
lity room daday tae fold some laundry and saw a spider hingin fae d (2018) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
k ava wi the fite nuns, bit a laundry-wummin fa washed the orphanag
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
ake efter spendin time foldin laundry in Saughton. Oor host lights
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
e Pandit. “Ill pick up your laundry.”
1 matches

General Central

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
nks79 Think wan of ma jobs is laundry the mora gorgeous ???? (2022) twitter link

@rattlecans tweeted
y, which will also be the day laundry is drying aroon the cooker (2022) twitter link

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
rs' rights an weemen scrubbin laundry fur a pittance. The simple li on page 27
o twa raw hans that scrubbed laundry day-in-day-oot. on page 29
an Sally come ilka day wi the laundry. That's what he had toul Sall on page 31
d keekt oot the windae as the laundry maid walkt by. on page 35
t kiss - she the girl wi the laundry in hir airms, he the rich boy on page 53

5 matches

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