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The word 'salesman'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
salesmanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.71911
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 44.3 10 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
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 salesman 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

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
on o Roddie Fleechem, the car salesman. on page 29

1 matches

Gauld, Ilene Ilene Gauld - Piper and Poet, (Doric Future 2020) Doric - Keith, weans
The salesman wis brilliant an kent ees tar
1 matches

Facebook link (Doric Scots Books an Poems 2021) Doric - Fraserburgh
He got a hud o the salesman cheil

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
rst concerns a travellin shoe-salesman by the name o Sidney Mieras w on page 118

4 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
It didnae metter if it wis a salesman sellin bits for tractors or s
fa should come in aboot bit a salesman fae a
nowt. It wis tay time an the salesman
uck left in the coort. As the salesman sat ther tellin
tae the salesman. "I'm awa tae caw oot yon twa
6 matches

(South) East Central

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
as he gaed. A salesman, she thocht, no seein richt i
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
a lapsed Sikh and traivilling salesman. He had a muckle big case fu
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 125, (self-published 2004) Central, newspaper
n customers aye kens when the salesman comes ower as bein ashamed o
1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
an whitever second-haund car salesman gets in there first tae smash
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
And the serpent a salesman if iver their wis on page 155

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ah mean? A sleekit, snake oil salesman is Archie, ay the auldest kin
1 matches

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