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The word 'screivar'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
screivarOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.6283
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 37.2 28 3
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 screivar in Corpus

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General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
arts can be a rare help til a screivar an gey necessar for ony publi on page 7
cause thay arna objective. Ae screivar micht descrive a city as 'bon on page 11
o dialects but, raither, the screivar shuid ettle at ae staundart g on page 12
a swither ower langage whan a screivar taks in haun tae owerset in S on page 13
Technology is the Scots screivar's freend - online Scots dict on page 16
Also on pages 19, 32, 37, 41, 51, 53, 59, 60
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Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
er o 1349-50, an the Soothron screivar Hendrie Knichton says that th on page 110

3 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
n, the Dictionary serred this screivar weil as a student, throu cove on page 130

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
Ae screivar Dauvit Cauderwid, writin in t
In Februar o 1665 the journal screivar Jeems Nicoll descrived whit w
2 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
rsettin is that it scarts the screivar’s buttons and gars him or h
1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
The screivar ahin the 1706 blad (see PDF a
ising o 1745-6. He wis a sang screivar an wrate Hey, Johnny Cope in
The screivar ahin the airticle is fasht at
ens that muckle on drink. The screivar tells us that a body will dri
rn aboot the want o meal. The screivar says “It’s plain eneuch t
7 matches

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