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The word 'referee'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
refereeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.6159
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
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
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 referee 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.

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
s jumpin up an doon cawin the referee athing fae the
touchline. Ower comes the referee tae Jake Monie an, says somet
fer auld barny atween em, the referee hid eneuch an showed
referee fit he thocht o him, the resu
air on tae the park. Weel the referee wisnae
5 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
s oaff in anticipation ae the referee blowin his openin whistle. Wh on page 105
is stormin towards us as the referee blows his whistle tae signal on page 110

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West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
ir soupit up wi fushion. The referee is an auld mannie cawed ‘Te
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Sands, Finn THE GHAISTLY FITBAW MATCH, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
is the heid o’ the Heidless Referee. ‘Whit?’ he said an wonde
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Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
or no, thir wiz nae referee, we ran thi show on page 53

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Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
.GO!' shouts Mo, actin as the referee an adjudicator fur this round on page 13

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Ayrshire

Lehane, Matt Cubismo Part II, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
the referee
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General Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth Deid huddies an the Moray Eel, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
The pairt time fitba referee an Conservative Member o Parl
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@DABArbuckle tweeted
ugie Ross' career as a fitba' referee. Or will he noo rin up an doo(2020)
gie Ross didnae volunteer tae referee the Scotland gemme?!(2020)

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