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The word 'detective'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
detectiveOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.1234
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 18.6 14 1
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 detective in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
na till the next day that the detective sergeant and a constable peye
. “JESUS!” Turnin tae the detective he said, “Did ye see that?
“Oot o the wye!” The detective teen a look in the windae but
table stood aside tae let the detective gyang in first. The detective
gyang in first. The detective laughed at this and said, “
5 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
-league criminal an she wis a detective hud caught him in the act. on page 1

3 matches

West Central

Lochhead, Liz Ashet, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
elementary detective work in a dictionar an here,
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
d: Wid it no be braw tae be a detective? Weel, I hae, and a wheen o i on page 1
gn that she micht end up as a detective. A guid few folk that are aye on page 6
'Mibbe ye should become a detective yin day,' he said. on page 21
at yin day she micht become a detective. When he said that, her first on page 23
ae hersel, 'Aye, I could be a detective. But I doot it'll be on page 24
Also on pages 63, 69, 78, 79
14 matches

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