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The word 'slab'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
slabOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.23422
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 21.9 9 5
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 15.4 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 2
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 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of slab in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
e: she wis lyin on a circular slab in the middle o the room; a b on page 12

2 matches

Hutchison, Pat Sanners Gow's Tales and Folklore of the Buchan - The Clootie Dummmplin!, (Ayton Publishing 2017 ISBN: 978-1910601419) Doric - Banffshire, prose
Mrs Robson wid come oot wi a slab o clootie dumplin. She’d sp
yang ower tae the plate a big slab o clootie dumplin lay on an t
chty that’s aboot the third slab o’t he’s pitten awa an it
3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
ar bear wis streekit oot on a slab, sunnin his fuskers.
1 matches

General Northern

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
fterneen. Oor backyard a dull slab o grey granite. Suddenly a we on page 42

1 matches

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
ilk roch cast slab wis set: a fist o rock on page 39

1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
icht saasidges min nae at dry slab things. Bit I hid pizza for m(2020)

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
y gin I'm lucky, an a mairble slab gin I'm no! Pey him aff - ge on page 86

2 matches

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
oon in sections. Balancin the slab foonds oan Tod's wheelbarra w on page 7

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
ifie wha's probably lyin on a slab in the mortuary by noo. That' on page 38

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
y, the first ane o whilk, The Slab Boys, wis first performed 30
scrived as denouement tae The Slab Boys, Phil shockingly lairns
!" Phil micht hiv swapped his slab for a canvas, makin his name
'sugar'. They easily fa intae Slab Boys stylised English crack w
4 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
ot stopped in Heathrow with a slab of lorne, by the security ser(2020)

West Central

Lochhead, Liz Ashet, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
o white-breid’s a big thick slab
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Lallans 82 - The Banes o Alba, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
tae the slab-runkelt shores o Auchmithie on page 32

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
k shair he didnae trip ower a slab or bump intae onie o the grea on page 65
k shair he didnae trip ower a slab or bump intae onic o the grea on page 69

2 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Eemis Stane 1 - The Mindin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
inward tae reveal a concrete slab merkit wi the bluid an claw m on page 9

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
in the Highlander packet. The slab ae Tennent's gits ripped open on page 10

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ft aff gies us aw a tin fae a slab ay Tennents that’s gettin p
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
s fae the concrete foundation slab ay the factory; a doocot.
1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
he byordinar Rosemarkie Cross Slab that wis cairvit aboot 1,200
on the Hilton o Cadboll Cross Slab.
2 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
er an is jist aside the first slab.
Frae a simple slab lyin in the ground Sandy prog

@billykayscot tweeted
ct tae describe a wheen Tory, Slab an Libdem British Nationalist(2020)

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
They wad thraw oot that auld slab on page 77

1 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - The Stert ae World War III?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
tprints in the concrete pavin slab, hinkin, Er, dae ye smile?, w
1 matches

General Ulster

Stewart, Kenny The Bread Van, (Facebook 2020) Ulster, poetry
Tae get it split an a great slab on butter in the middle tae m
1 matches

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