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The word 'gairdner'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gairdnerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.2177
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21.9 2 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 74.9 6 1
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) 36.3 2 1

Occurrences of gairdner in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
faun naethin. He says ull his gairdner, 'Leuk, for three eer A've so on page 104

2 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - The Bigger Hoose, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
ister. "Yer brither'll be the gairdner, then, is he?"said Ah. She gi on page 104
"Aye, Dod's the gairdner ...an the plumber an the chef on page 105

2 matches

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
The gairdner maun think it's sense
ye're the heid gairdner. Tend it richt.
2 matches

Glasgow

Eunson, Catherine Freude, (The Scores 2020) Central, poetry
she’d lauched wi the Gairdner chiel and noo she wid mairy h
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
The schuil gairdner had heard the wheeplin and yo on page 76

1 matches

Waddell, John Lallans 58 - fower poems bi John Waddell, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
The gairdner maun think it's sense on page 62

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
s faimlie bade. Tammy wis the gairdner/chauffeur/ferm stewart. Mr an
say this, kis Jimmy Cook, the gairdner it Hoscote, hed wrocht fur th
kirk airt. Jimmy Cook wis the gairdner it Hoscote fur ae gey wheen y
manager / heid gairdner wis ae Johnnie Howe, him an h
gairdner an bade i the Gairden Cottage
6 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
un nane. Sae he sayed tae tha gairdner, 'Luk here, thïs thrie yeir on page 93

2 matches

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