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leader Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words19.7 26.2 13.6 9.9 0 0 8.9
Number of occurrences6351 9 1 0 0 2
Number of authors35 26 6 1 2

Occurrences of leader in Corpus

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Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 76 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
ukkil mair nor this, a former leader o the SNP. His poleitical car on page 3

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Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
et, an the third, their stout leader David Hackston o Rathillet, w on page 54
e shaes on the causies. Their leader, ane Peter Inglis, had a pist on page 59

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
And then there's the supreme leader ae the tartan mafia. That Nic on page 55

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
hour, cometh the man', but a leader is nae uise gin there's naebu on page 58
e Daily Mail an the Telegraph leader-writers micht be happy gin th on page 138

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
n 730AD when Alpin, wha wis a leader amang the Scots, wis fechtin on page 14

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Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
lt ma Da that Rodrick wis the leader-aff on the hale thing, and HE on page 12

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Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 62 - Blue Lift Snaw, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ot. Oo’v duin athoot a team leader this lang, oo can dae athoot
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Burnett, Colin Boris Johnstone, (colinburnett.co.uk 2021) Central - East Central, prose
nd then there’s the supreme leader ae the tartan mafia. That Nic
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Heather, Alistair Bravehert: The truth anent William Wallace (pairt 1), (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
anark, Wallace wis a military leader o ae type or anither, an wis
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Thoumire, Elizabeth Deid huddies an the Moray Eel, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
the boak owre his Westmeester leader renegin on the promise tae
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Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e other two an their apparent leader.
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Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
The apparent leader ay the group offers a hauf ar
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Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
hat nicht. But whan I saw the leader o the prisoners, wi his sleek
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McKillop, Roger Challengin' Times, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
he road! A asked ma assistant leader tae look efter the rest o’
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McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
s met by Morag, oor spiritual leader an’ colleague, known tae me
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
leader. There bude tae be some kin o
d wumman wha seemt tae be the leader o that crew an left it tae he
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Horsbroch, Dauvit The Embra Greement, (Scots Language Centre 2012) Central, government
rants o public siller tae the leader-aff
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Sneddon, Alison Whit dae ye want “British vailues” tae mean?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
Britain haes been a leader in warkin tae enable vulnerab
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Puchowski, James Frae Norrowa ower the faem, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
is whan fowk like Scots Tory leader Ruth Davidson, wha also happe
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McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
a notes: a relatively popular leader (relative tae Labour’s, oni
rrelevance. A simple chynge o leader winna dae it, an it seems the
lenge Dugdale’s position as leader. Mibbie they ken they need de
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McClurg, Fernando Tae see oorsels as we see ithers, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
Nationalist leader Nikola Zturgeon
tland’s popular nationalist leader, Nikola Zturgeon, wha noo com
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Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
. The SNP lost their greatest leader. The streets o Glesca turned
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Ewen, Allan Murphy’s Law, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
elevation tae Scottish Labour leader micht weel be anither indicat
Fan Tony Blair becam leader o The Labour Perty, Clause IV
t gart former Scottish Labour Leader Johann Lamont cry her Perty n
Jim Murphy as Scottish Labour leader continues Blair’s ‘Neo-La
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Facebook link ( 2016) Central
e frae Cameron.The government leader wis Andrew Bruce o Earshall.

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
ue wi the ultimate Protestant leader.

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
up camp. Thur self-appointit leader Robert Hamilton, or Sir Rober

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
The Covenantin so cawed leader Sir Robert Hamilton o Fingalt

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
’Listen, ah’m a community leader. People aroond these parts li
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@iainnicol tweeted
ories I dinna mind yer Depute Leader changin.(2020) search twitter

@MartinBroon tweeted
ot the group hug... ??<<<Leader. ????????????. ????????(2019) search twitter
@kingkeg58 A don’t huv a leader....(2020) search twitter

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
did he nae get tae be Labour leader (aye SNP but still...)? Och o(2020) search twitter

@DABArbuckle tweeted
s from jist aboot every world leader. Im seek boakit(2020) search twitter

@raiphsays tweeted
guidance, said by yer electit leader, durin a pandemic, wis import(2020) search twitter

@bigandymccoll tweeted
ll a fry tae stand up tae the leader. Or he's scared of her. Who k (2022) twitter link
that her tribe will vote her leader no matter what she says - sh (2022) twitter link

@pmcm1355 tweeted
ude his attempt tae be pairty leader he's failt tae get electit 9 (2022) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ote labour again if sarwar is leader - yesterdays man and the par (2021) twitter link
t and lets get behind our new leader brothers (2021) twitter link
ight from the scottish labour leader on nikkigate - b oan tae all (2021) twitter link
that oor glorious leader followin bj again lol https:/ (2021) twitter link
on hus been stressing oot his leader - lassie wis ready tae burst (2021) twitter link

Doric

Maitland, Andrew Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Auld Mannie, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
The gang leader's smirk grew muckle. on page 74

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Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
as each national leader competes on page 20

1 matches

Shepherd, Robbie Harknin tae the braw souns, (John Benjamin 2000) Doric, newspaper
hat maun be wrang. Noted band leader Bill Black, o Stanle, summ't
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Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
will be a quickstep 'The band leader
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Angels Ten, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
“This is red leader at angels ten!”
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@72redz1903 tweeted
estimate the impact of a good leader. Ah this talk aboot style o f (2022) twitter link

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
seun enogh runnan fine. Thir leader caas the dance: a tree-step f on page 130

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Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Tha loupin leader chucks his stick, on page 32

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@the_gellick tweeted
k are plain daft. Nae daicent leader would hae servility. (2015) twitter link

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