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The word 'lurcher'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lurcherOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus0.933
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central
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 lurcher in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Aberdeen

Philp, George Lallans 67 - Thochts anent Sangschaw and Penny Wheep, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Doric, poetry
Lochans an Lurcher's. on page 139

1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
er auld pal Robert. There's a lurcher cawed Luggie, a greyhound cri on page 23

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
lean lurcher dugs chasin rabbits on page 15

1 matches

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