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The word 'surgeon'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
surgeonOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.9139
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 7.3 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 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 surgeon in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
the sumph tae gyang unner the surgeon's knife.
ers hae a byordnar fear o the surgeon's knife."
2 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair The Body Snatchers, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
t as suin as they war deid, a surgeon cried Knox supplyin the sille
1 matches

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
He didnae need a surgeon's knife -
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
alysl thum. As if ah’m some surgeon aboot tae pit a patient under
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
nnach @FionaPe74999377 nicola surgeon - i cant remember lol (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
hissel as Iqbal Nanto, thair surgeon, an walcomin her as a new add
had been jynt by the primpin surgeon. Some o her new pals wis dete
2 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
hallmark ay the mental street surgeon that hud performed the ocular
1 matches

General Central

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
o me tae introduce the barber surgeon ... A man wi knowledge and de
e pain micht git ye altho the surgeon reassures me that folk in the
tuck in yer airm ... Weel the surgeon hus a screw lik device that h

@Chazzbat tweeted
atients survive when he wis a surgeon? Acause he soonds like a comp(2020)

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