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The word 'lorry'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lorryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.81612
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.3 4 4
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 4
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 lorry in Corpus

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Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
Owertook a flatbed lorry on da road and lashed securel (2019) twitter link

General Northern

Coutts, Pete Belhelvie, (bandcamp 2016) Doric, poetry
Their lorry teen alang the road, they wer
1 matches

@Franwella tweeted
blustery th day. Jist passed lorry on it's side. Hope drivers ar(2011)

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
comeuppance yin day. Unner a lorry, nae doot. on page 1

1 matches

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
ays, fell aff the back eh the lorry he drives. She elt me if ever on page 7

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
In the back o a lorry; I've no been nabbed at the b on page 20

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
at dover - ma monies oan the lorry drivers - get in there lads! (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

Purdie, David C. Lallans 59 - Terry Fae Brooklyn, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Aryshire, prose
telt him I drove a builder's lorry in Civvy Street. He telt me h on page 136

2 matches

General Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 74 - Flittin In, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
back o a Frazer-Hailles coal lorry, whit wis uised fir flittins
n ower the twa fit hie widden lorry cheek, hes een blintered in t
The driver tirnt the lorry aff the main road an heidit d
b windae. Wullie sclimmed the lorry side, louped tae the grund, w
4 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
k tyne their lifes whan a bin lorry lost control. Hooanever, resi
1 matches

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
dae ye no need tae hae a big lorry anaw?(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
tae read @rabwilson1 's poem 'Lorry Load o Christmas trees': http (2017) twitter link

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