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The word 'chairman'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
chairmanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4118
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 4
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 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 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 chairman in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Goodall, Phyllis J. Berryhill, (timberford.demon 2000) Doric, poetry
Sat at the Chairman’s knee,
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
Auld Mattha, her man, hid bin chairman tae the Widside pairish coonc
1 matches

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Furst Time, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
€™s merrit noo, twa weans and chairman of the PTA. Bliddy wanker! Go
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
the seated figures while the chairman opened the meeting in his usu
le began tae notice. Even the chairman forgot his stupid jaded jokes
ady tae makie on laugh at the chairman’s fuckin stupid jokes.
3 matches

General Northern

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
ye pot-bellied beer-swiller. Chairman o the Cooncil, O.B.E. My, fit on page 8

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
irnie, the genial 55 year old chairman of Scots Tung", in the saicon
raph as a "genial 55 year old chairman of Scots Tung", when in fack
2 matches

General Central

Cairns, Pauline Lallans 58 - Newsins fa the SND, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
egither wi Victor Skrekowizc, Chairman o the Joint Council for the D on page 110

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
James Barke, Unity’s first Chairman, wis jist moderately successf
1 matches

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