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The word 'slug'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
slugOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3107
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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 slug in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ts d'day. I winder if he aets slug eggs?(2013)

General Northern

Devlin, Edwin The School Dentist 1969, (Facebook 2020) Doric, prose
gulls eggs we would tack oor slug guns and shot rabbits and har
1 matches

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Tae find a juicy slug or snail."
wir free o slug, likewise o snail,
2 matches

Glasgow

Geraghty, Martin 378, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
nnae yir pals could lend me a slug gun. That’d get the job don
oot every doo in Glesga wi a slug gun? Yir bein silly.’
2 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
grin on yer mug, ye daft wee slug, an come an jyne the dance. W on page 44

1 matches

General Central

Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
er Campbell - a lang slochie slug ae a laud. A nestie piece ae on page 3

1 matches

Waddell, John Lallans 58 - fower poems bi John Waddell, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Deep Thochts Inspired by a Slug on page 62

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
d, efter aa. You took a great slug o tea. Mrs McClymont Josie sa on page 81

1 matches

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