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The word 'courier'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
courierOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.866
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 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 courier in Corpus

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General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
arcel he wiz delivering for a courier. Needless to say, I got his s(2020)

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
Sake. Nae abidy kanes far the Courier comes fae or cares either. Di (2019) twitter link

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
according 2 the east lothian courier the bridge has been vandalise (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
ah'll need tae send thaim bi courier, fir a start," she thought; " on page 16

1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
sley Magazine and the Glasgow Courier. His Paisley Garland wis neve on page 69

1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
nd thair wey intae The Dundee Courier and Argus on the day o the el
1 matches

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