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The word 'preacher'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
preacherOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.82212
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
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 39.3 3 1
LAL - General Central 15.9 12 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
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 preacher 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.

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Fobie closed is een es the preacher maanie droned oan an oan. ".. on page 76

1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
son of a preacher man on page 37

1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 76 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
this he wes an actor, reader, preacher, organist an a byordnar wecht on page 3

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
scene whaurin the auld Stoic preacher's left frienless eftir makkin on page 116

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ernacle, tae hear the visitin preacher, the famous Mr Haldane. He ha on page 35

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
A Preacher an’ Athlete an’ proud tae
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
the south-west - persecuted preacher an proscribed rebel. He stopp on page 29
nine - the last me the auld preacher had steyd at Priesthill, the on page 67

3 matches

General Central

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
Miss Annie Elizabeth Preacher on page 27

2 matches

MacKenzie, Douglas Eemis Stane 1 - Puir Finch, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
t's no for me anthropomorphic preacher on page 13

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - A Mass In Scots For Saint Andrae, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
lnae hear tell o him athoot a preacher, and they willnae hae a preac on page 97

2 matches

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
ald Cargill, the famous rebel preacher, bein hung an wis sae affecte

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
He wis also a great preacher] an drew crowds o ower a thoo
d preachin mission. Ane ither preacher, an aulder man, Donald Cargil
Cameron wis a powerfu preacher, very direct but peruasive in

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
eel, Cameron wis a Covenantin preacher an features in ma 2nd book 'D
He wis also a great preacher. An mind he wis jist a man in

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
ne in parteeclar whae wisna a preacher.

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Reynolds, Charlie Krisamas time is draa’in near, (Ullans Speakers Association 2011) Ulster - Coleraine, prose
Noo, A haenae turned intae a preacher but A think at Krisamas noo-a
1 matches

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