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The word 'screwdriver'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
screwdriverOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.7196
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 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 34.1 14 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
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 screwdriver in Corpus

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Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
the morning...ahv got a long screwdriver still got it...and it was cov (2021) twitter link

General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
ein' about getting a collated screwdriver.(2019)

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
es it as a plane, a hemmer, a screwdriver, an tae pit the fear o God in on page 86

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Glesgy Screwdriver, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
The Glesgy Screwdriver on page 95
've been pit in wi the Glesgy Screwdriver!" Cherlie telt him. on page 96
Ian telt him aboot the Glesgy Screwdriver an aboot the infamy o whaivve on page 98
mery, had feet o cley. Glesgy Screwdriver? Catch Ian yaisin that! That on page 99

13 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
doun on ma lavvy's fluir wi a screwdriver an the scaitert remains o a t
1 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
type to require a hammer or a screwdriver – in fact the only tools th
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
SS PENT, YIN QUART. He taen a screwdriver and wheeched aff the lid. The on page 35

1 matches

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