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The word 'cleaners'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cleanersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3108
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 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 4
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 cleaners in Corpus

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General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
shift chipper!! Fit next? Dry cleaners ???? https://t.co/RS02QkWskQ(2020)

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
nurses, posties, bus-drivers, cleaners, carers, an aw thae fowk stra on page 10

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
staff - fowk like porters an cleaners - wis the maist cuiterin, th
1 matches

Glasgow

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
he kites and ribbons and pipe-cleaners came tiding oot ontae the lin on page 40

1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
like a haill shopfu o vacuum-cleaners were oot tae get her. She hel on page 14

1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
The cleaners huv gone. Ah went tae check o(2020)
d this yestreen. Ah hed hoose cleaners in, an Ah felt bereft efter t(2020)
ge bowl onywhaur. Ah hope the cleaners didnae chuck it oot. ??(2020)

@rattlecans tweeted
ys fae the poorest areas? The cleaners who spend an hour on buses (i (2022) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
h but spoke tae the janny and cleaners in Scots (which they apprecia(2020)

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