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The word 'mower'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mowerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.8168
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 29.4 9 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
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 mower in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
ssuming cut (scythe or finger mower) turned (by fork) made into s (2020) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
she wis strugglin te push the mower an Ah teen er oot a glaiss o on page 51

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Mower Madness on page 81
leuch. "Ye canna ask fir the mower back tull ye gie Frank his sh on page 82
id, "Jt wisna onythin aboot a mower, wis 't?"' on page 83

8 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Cut i' gress wi I'mower. on page 135

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Jonsar Eck stopped the mower an gaed awa ower tae tae the
1 matches

(South) East Central

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
time ye took the sit-oan lawn mower. She went ballistic, ifah min on page 7

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 82 - The Cream Cookie, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Midlothian, prose
ff the shed whaur the cooncil mower wis hained. The laddie rin ta on page 60

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Efter puttin the mower away, ah take masel back ben
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
e end we had tae tak the lawn mower tae it jist tae keep it doon! on page 103

1 matches

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