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The word 'magnet'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
magnetOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.81610
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.3 3 2
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 32 3 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 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 magnet in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
the side o’t like a fridge magnet and screamed oot o ma but the
1 matches

Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
oe_yer99 Shame it was a Danny magnet....erm it wisnae really (2022) twitter link

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Attracts me jist like a magnet on page 181

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
s, eh? this wee hings a fanny magnet. Ah mean, she's practically g on page 154

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
- laddie seems tae b a babe magnet lol (2020) twitter link
aunMcC4llion an absolute babe magnet btw (2021) twitter link

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Whit magnet draws us tae a foreign shore? on page 15
Whit magnet draws us tae a foreign shore? on page 21
Whit magnet draws us tae a foreign shore? on page 22

3 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
feedin doun a lang line wi a magnet on the end. Nou they wuid fis on page 52

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ttin oot the noise, flung the magnet tae the man neist him, an tur
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
tract this shit man; a fuckin magnet fur aggro, ah um, know whit a
1 matches

Ayrshire

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
Whit magnet draws us tae a foreign shore?
Whit magnet draws us tae a foreign shore?
Whit magnet draws us tae a foreign shore?
3 matches

General Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 84 - The Fate o the Philosopher, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
d taewards it lik a pin tae a magnet. 'Naw!' he shouted as he grab on page 48

1 matches

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