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The word 'librarian'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
librarianOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1106
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
WCE - West Central 32.2 7 3
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of librarian in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
euponashire Our Banff Academy librarian, Alastair Henderson aye keeps (2020) twitter link

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
she introduced hersel tae the librarian, Mrs Phelps. She asked if she on page 6

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
We asked Miss Thin the librarian if she knew whit it is wis bu on page 72
witch. Miss Thin, the skinny librarian came ower an tolt us tae be q on page 106
eda when she wis in askin the librarian aboot a Virginia Andrews nove on page 169

3 matches

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
eally thocht ah shud tell the librarian up the stair, but when ah got
bother. So ah niver telt the librarian. Ah niver telt ma ma. Ah nive
. Which wis upstairs. Wi’ a librarian watchin’ ower iverybudy aâ€
3 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
ng. If ye dae, the poke-nosed librarian will be oan yer case quicker on page 40

1 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
tae a librarian,
1 matches

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