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The word 'reindeer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
reindeerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5168
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 21.7 4 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 reindeer in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
ok of fokk tink. Dere’s nae reindeer dere. I headed for Lapland, n
erin trowe da sna wis a dizen reindeer. Of coorse, da maist famous e
igner of Santa’s sleigh and reindeer keeper,” said Pepper. We he
3 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Santy's reindeer'll hae nae budder wi yun peer(2013)

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ye needed a sexy pole dancing reindeer in ma life fae @TheRangeUK Ab(2016)

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
e word had gaen roon that the reindeer wir loose.
noo A've got nae reindeer for puin ma sleigh?"
note that it's harnessed tae reindeer - no mooses.
3 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
pit a carrot oot yet fur the reindeer? on page 41
thought ah might see Santa's reindeer. Ah've got her well-traint, s on page 169

2 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
‘A reindeer it wis, Michelle, win’t it
‘A reindeer?’ Michelle replies, astonis
‘Naw. It wisnae a reindeer. It wis a deer. A red deer ah
any ay them wae a big bloody reindeer chasin them.’ Trisha sais,
4 matches

General Central

McClure, Derrick J. , (no publisher recorded 2017) Central, poetry
erie-wee sled, an eicht totie reindeer.
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Adamson, Donald Northwords Now 43 - Donald Adamson, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Central, poetry
like a reindeer harlin a slipe on page 28

1 matches

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