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The word 'slaters'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
slatersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.584
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 69.5 5 2
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 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of slaters in Corpus

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General Central

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
ye kent they orra beasties as slaters in Scotland(2017)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
t mair than thon Ah'm feart o slaters. on page 66
Puddocks, Slaters, Jennies. on page 72

2 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
k and lots on @scotslanguage, slaters and stuff! @ByLeavesWeLive @S(2020)
aw compliments an skeckin fir slaters forby ?? https://t.co/ipugMex(2020)
r o Bairnrhymes buik. Ah luve slaters really! https://t.co/Z1oiCwRS(2020)

General Ulster

@HurchinHome tweeted
Big day for the slaters! Or should that be slady-cree(2020)
@tickledpink47 No slaters in Derry!(2019)