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The word 'snawman'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
snawmanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1103
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
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 8 6 2
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 snawman in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
7. The Tale o Snochrie the Snawman
Snochrie the Snawman dichtit a muckle dreep frae t
a hairy mat, an Snochrie the Snawman’s
n steppit up tae Snochrie the Snawman, an keekit inno the twa blaik
4 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Jordan's New Jaiket, (Education Scotland 2014) Central, weans
€˜Wow-eee, I’m gonnae mak a snawman,’ said Jordan.
ages. She’s awready made a snawman,’
n looked and saw a muckle big snawman. The snawman wis wearin his n
. The snawman wis wearin his new yella jaik
‘I dinnae think the snawman will mind if we gie Jordan ba
5 matches

@ClashCityClarky tweeted
ashin Scots translation o The Snawman is oot the day: https://t.co/(2020)

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