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The word 'leader'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
leaderOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus19.76436
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 26.6 6 3
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 20.3 8 3
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 1
EDN - Edinburgh 31.3 5 3
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 1
LAL - General Central 38.5 29 16
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of leader in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
seun enogh runnan fine. Thir leader caas the dance: a tree-step f on page 130

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Shepherd, Robbie Harknin tae the braw souns, (John Benjamin 2000) Doric, newspaper
hat maun be wrang. Noted band leader Bill Black, o Stanle, summ't
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Angels Ten, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
“This is red leader at angels ten!”
1 matches

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
as each national leader competes on page 20

1 matches

General Northern

Maitland, Andrew Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Auld Mannie, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
The gang leader's smirk grew muckle. on page 74

4 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
will be a quickstep 'The band leader
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
estimate the impact of a good leader. Ah this talk aboot style o f (2022) twitter link

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Bravehert: The truth anent William Wallace (pairt 1), (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
anark, Wallace wis a military leader o ae type or anither, an wis
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
And then there's the supreme leader ae the tartan mafia. That Nic on page 55

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 62 - Blue Lift Snaw, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ot. Oo’v duin athoot a team leader this lang, oo can dae athoot
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Boris Johnstone, (colinburnett.co.uk 2021) Central - East Central, prose
nd then there’s the supreme leader ae the tartan mafia. That Nic
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ote labour again if sarwar is leader - yesterdays man and the par (2021) twitter link
t and lets get behind our new leader brothers (2021) twitter link
ight from the scottish labour leader on nikkigate - b oan tae all (2021) twitter link
that oor glorious leader followin bj again lol https:/ (2021) twitter link
on hus been stressing oot his leader - lassie wis ready tae burst (2021) twitter link

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 76 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
ukkil mair nor this, a former leader o the SNP. His poleitical car on page 3

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
hour, cometh the man', but a leader is nae uise gin there's naebu on page 58
e Daily Mail an the Telegraph leader-writers micht be happy gin th on page 138

2 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
n 730AD when Alpin, wha wis a leader amang the Scots, wis fechtin on page 14

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Challengin' Times, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
he road! A asked ma assistant leader tae look efter the rest o’
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
s met by Morag, oor spiritual leader an’ colleague, known tae me
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
leader. There bude tae be some kin o
d wumman wha seemt tae be the leader o that crew an left it tae he
2 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
’Listen, ah’m a community leader. People aroond these parts li
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
the wail ye cin hear the band leader, the boay that wis sittin nex on page 3

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e other two an their apparent leader.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
The apparent leader ay the group offers a hauf ar
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
et, an the third, their stout leader David Hackston o Rathillet, w on page 54
e shaes on the causies. Their leader, ane Peter Inglis, had a pist on page 59

2 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
lt ma Da that Rodrick wis the leader-aff on the hale thing, and HE on page 12

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Deid huddies an the Moray Eel, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
the boak owre his Westmeester leader renegin on the promise tae
1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
hat nicht. But whan I saw the leader o the prisoners, wi his sleek
1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit The Embra Greement, (Scots Language Centre 2012) Central, government
rants o public siller tae the leader-aff
1 matches

Sneddon, Alison Whit dae ye want “British vailues” tae mean?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
Britain haes been a leader in warkin tae enable vulnerab
1 matches

Puchowski, James Frae Norrowa ower the faem, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
is whan fowk like Scots Tory leader Ruth Davidson, wha also happe
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
a notes: a relatively popular leader (relative tae Labour’s, oni
rrelevance. A simple chynge o leader winna dae it, an it seems the
lenge Dugdale’s position as leader. Mibbie they ken they need de
3 matches

McClurg, Fernando Tae see oorsels as we see ithers, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
Nationalist leader Nikola Zturgeon
tland’s popular nationalist leader, Nikola Zturgeon, wha noo com
2 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
. The SNP lost their greatest leader. The streets o Glesca turned
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Murphy’s Law, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
elevation tae Scottish Labour leader micht weel be anither indicat
Fan Tony Blair becam leader o The Labour Perty, Clause IV
t gart former Scottish Labour Leader Johann Lamont cry her Perty n
Jim Murphy as Scottish Labour leader continues Blair’s ‘Neo-La
4 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
e frae Cameron.The government leader wis Andrew Bruce o Earshall.

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
ue wi the ultimate Protestant leader.

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
up camp. Thur self-appointit leader Robert Hamilton, or Sir Rober

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
The Covenantin so cawed leader Sir Robert Hamilton o Fingalt

@iainnicol tweeted
ories I dinna mind yer Depute Leader changin.(2020)

@MartinBroon tweeted
ot the group hug... ??<<<Leader. ????????????. ????????(2019)
@kingkeg58 A don’t huv a leader....(2020)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
did he nae get tae be Labour leader (aye SNP but still...)? Och o(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
s from jist aboot every world leader. Im seek boakit(2020)

@raiphsays tweeted
guidance, said by yer electit leader, durin a pandemic, wis import(2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
ll a fry tae stand up tae the leader. Or he's scared of her. Who k (2022) twitter link
that her tribe will vote her leader no matter what she says - sh (2022) twitter link

@pmcm1355 tweeted
ude his attempt tae be pairty leader he's failt tae get electit 9 (2022) twitter link

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Tha loupin leader chucks his stick, on page 32

1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
k are plain daft. Nae daicent leader would hae servility. (2015) twitter link