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The word 'secretary'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
secretaryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.91915
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 4
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 secretary 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.

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
ae his office, snapped at his secretary no tae disturb him, grabbed t
1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
ith by, an most o the Culture Secretary's screed wis wrote in this ae
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
A secretary's the answer, see She'll mayb on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
me Ah seen't, yon bit blondie secretary o his wis weerin't. Fit's waa on page 31

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ere gaspin wi pleasure fin my secretary knocked on my door and shoute
1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
@kenmccoll Secretary of hate for Scotland mair lik(2020)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@MWilliamsHT the last justice secretary was bad enough but this guy t (2020) twitter link
rdSummerisle @belf3 a justice secretary wae a criminal offence need a (2021) twitter link

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Ah wis made Branch Secretary, that's something on page 80

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
it this wis the then Scottish Secretary, ane Donald Dewar, gettin his on page 109
rs. Gien that we'd had a Home Secretary (Saint Theresa May) sendin oo on page 112

2 matches

Glasgow

Geraghty, Martin A Bad Sport, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
in’ spaces reserved for The Secretary, Club Captain n other importa
1 matches

General Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
His secretary comes ben the office wi an in on page 72

2 matches

Facebook link ( 2022) Central
eron did the needfu. The SCMA secretary Dane Love gied a deserved tha

Thoumire, Elizabeth Deid huddies an the Moray Eel, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ottish Government’s Cabinet Secretary for the Rural Economy Fergus
1 matches

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
ed secret meetins, became the secretary tae the Societies which wis m

@Chazzbat tweeted
Yulin festival, ask the Party Secretary of Guangxi to end the dog and(2020)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
tion from our ScotGov Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Local Gov(2020)