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The word 'transfer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
transferOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.71211
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
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 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 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 transfer in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
hid in. This weys in the data transfer's driltan - enerjy's dear fe on page 73

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
n this military plane came to transfer a patient. As well as crying (2020)

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
oke He thocht his fish he wid transfer on page 15

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
has e-mailed me tae help him transfer siller inta ma bank account. (2019)

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
us tae a bee idiots that will transfer cash!!(2018)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
reportin o sport, than in the transfer o words til ither toapics. In
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
a believe - n is noo oan the transfer list - ffs lol (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
r Nith. Efter makin’ the “Transfer”, takin’ the Minibus an
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
Ah’d goat him tae transfer ma hauf ay the money by Weste
1 matches

General Central

Eagle, Andy Lallans 59 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
e yer players an tactics, dae transfer deals an sae on. Aw the feext on page 54

1 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 59 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
e yer players an tactics, dae transfer deals an sae on. Aw the feext on page 54

1 matches

@weenell3 tweeted
e stays in ?????????????? nae transfer fee allowed ?? (2022) twitter link

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