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The word 'clerk'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
clerkOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.42817
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 14.6 6 3
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 24.8 4 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 6
SEA - South East (Borders) 36.3 3 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 clerk in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
posstal clerk hands, plagued, as I am, on page 29

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
oliceman aksed. "The grazings clerk says it's your mark.' on page 73

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
The Session Clerk's flue wi seet wis bung't foo on page 15

1 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 68 - The Fower Jyners o the Apocalypse, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
ome shilpit, peely-wally, bit clerk wad peinge, "Can't you do tha on page 26

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
the Provost, Baillie an Toun Clerk tries tae find a new toun
Toun Clerk threaps the pawkie consait th
weary, chancin, bevvyin Toun Clerk wi lines the likes o "breckin
3 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
ike some soartae veteran bank clerk. Meanwile ah’m fulfillin ma
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab A Newsin Wi Jack Aitken, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
Oor ‘Clerk o Works’, the darg she’s
nn Craig’s the orra oaffice clerk,
2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
s, Sterling sent word fer his clerk tae come richt awa an draw up on page 26

1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Soonds o the kirk an court: early airt muisic in Scotland, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
od wi guid potential wis John Clerk o Penicuik (1676–1755). He
in his career. The scriever o Clerk’s entry in the Grove pits f
ntata Odo di mesto intorno as Clerk’s best. The first performan
1698. At the hinder end, tho, Clerk’s potential as a componer w
4 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
German faimily bade, a public clerk. "Sae if yon German noo is fl on page 136
in a bit like a retired state clerk. He sat a wee thing apairt af on page 141

2 matches

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
uid fortun brocht me here tae clerk fir Knicht Graham, John the G on page 9

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 102 - Editorial: Jean Tamson’s Bairns, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
McQueen, former Lord Justice Clerk o Scotland, itherwise kent as on page 7

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 104 - Whaur Div Ye Belang Tae?, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
e micht find that the session clerk keepit census papers fae afor on page 40

1 matches

Steele, Gregor Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
His name wis James Clerk Maxwell, and he wisnae daft a on page 10

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
e in the office o the Sheriff Clerk o Paisley, the heid guider o on page 69

2 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
r an his eventual wife, Netta Clerk, wis his housekeeper.
the bit ferst, bade Davie Clerk, Netta Clerk o Burnfit’s fa
, Netta Clerk o Burnfit’s faither. Is
3 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
Katy Clerk Maxwell on page 64

1 matches

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