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The word 'drivers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
driversOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.52520
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.3 4 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 6
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 drivers in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
fishan oot bottles o bus drivers' piss on page 12

1 matches

Shetland

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
for cars an git a tip fae da drivers. I tink someen telt me dat so

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
est tae da bakers, musicians, drivers, guisers, dancers, soupsteeri(2014)

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
"I ken I'll get the drivers ben" on page 15

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Fit wye are aa the bus drivers in their post-strike photos s(2018)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 75 - The Petrol Tanker, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Doric, prose
inkies, makin on we were taxi drivers (Ah hid a London taxi wi nae
1 matches

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
ssed lorry on it's side. Hope drivers arite?(2011)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
we're drivers o dumpers an hyst men,
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ime to make these selfish car drivers pay and make way for all the (2021) twitter link
cuit - forget f1 - the real drivers r the nascar bhoys (2020) twitter link
er - ma monies oan the lorry drivers - get in there lads! (2020) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
jiners, nurses, posties, bus-drivers, cleaners, carers, an aw thae on page 10
tresses an hotel porters, bus-drivers an hoose-builders - the Vigi on page 105

2 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
egoud tae niffer wi the larry drivers. He cam roon tae tak a leuk a
Wrang-fuitit, the drivers wis made tae lawer thair aski
2 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
p past the windaes. Even taxi drivers don't know it. F'kn beeeeeeee on page 3

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bools, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
o bloody interestit in pullin drivers oer fur no wearin their seatb
1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
The doughnuts' drivers were claithed in heidscarfs a on page 8

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
pect, raivelt. Twa o the main drivers o chynge seems tae be an ettl
1 matches

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
ursin an sweirin at the ither drivers, wadgin his nieve
evauled frae bannin the ither drivers lang eneuch ti say at twa o h
2 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Bairns ootside, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
an roond the corner like luge drivers at the Olympics but wi’oot
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
s a bit odd tae me. Ah've hed drivers refuse me fer aa sorts reason(2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
t only be short o' 69 999 HGV drivers noo ?? (2021) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
ur the only staps are made bi drivers on page 45

1 matches

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