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The word 'banger'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bangerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.177
ORK - Orkney
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 58.1 1 1
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 banger in Corpus

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General Northern

@daleser23 tweeted
a tune o his cad the secret. #banger(2013)

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
gang awa efter that auld heid-banger 0 a Queen: sae she steyd. on page 44

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
widna mind pittin a firework banger unner her chair but he didna on page 12

1 matches

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
Wis Renwick a heid banger or a committed man o conscien

@changed_days tweeted
he papers ???? she's a fuckin banger nae matter whit, but seen a l (2021) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
tishBantrr awa ye n' chew mah banger! (2020) twitter link

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
grim banger verse frae Bible kist on page 25

1 matches

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