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The word 'wheelbarra'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wheelbarraOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.653
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 16.3 3 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 wheelbarra in Corpus

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Orkney

Peace, Courtney The 'Guid' Life, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
Plitterin through hid wi me wheelbarra.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
eerin heidphones shoved a wee wheelbarra-like machine alang towards Di on page 1

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
There’s an auld wheelbarra sittin in the coarner ay the
he brick, ma left leg aff the wheelbarra, scrapin against the rough-ca
dae it again but the bastarn wheelbarra slips away fae me.
3 matches

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