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The word 'gairdener'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gairdenerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3107
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 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 gairdener in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 68 - Gordon’s Gairden, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Doric, prose
er, Gordon, at'd been a great gairdener an hid made a gran gairden ah on page 35

1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
gairdener, or the factor, or ony estate
1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
@muddy_40 Gairdener on holiday inoo(2020)

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
i'z speik ti auld Taylor, the gairdener, on a nyow cuir fur the rheum on page 7

1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Flemings o’ Dalnoid, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
The gairdener, aince, had,
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Like an auld gairdener's gluve on page 142

1 matches

General Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
wirkin life, ma uncle wis the gairdener tae the big hoose belangin th
e servin his time tae an auld gairdener in Fife. The position on the
The gairdener’s dwallin wis close by the
ir best, haed tae uise aa his gairdener’s skeels tae hae the tomata
4 matches

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