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The word 'slag'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
slagOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.61510
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 12.7 5 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 22.8 5 3
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 slag in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
"Ah'm no come here tae slag ye aff - ah'm on your flaman on page 36

1 matches

(South) East Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 57 - Twa Auld Men, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
eid shale bings and the black slag heips and they gae about thei on page 136

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
yFC same tae you - sorry tae slag off ur defeat n very long tri (2020) twitter link
7 noo noo theres nae need tae slag aff - an ex legend o amateur (2020) twitter link
eople quick enough on here to slag off every politician bar our (2020) twitter link
point being - dinny slag sum one off thats banned for (2021) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
joot how crap oor team wis an slag aff evrubdy else, Eventually on page 169

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
whut do yi tak me fir, a slag? on page 101

1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
a roar ae ‘’Bruce, ya wee slag!’’ which nae doot echo’
1 matches

Glasgow

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
snae go on her group chat and slag me aff lit an actual, normal on page 2
e that fussed aboot her. They slag her aff when she goes tae the on page 29

2 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
big fuckin lassie. He used to slag me fur screaming when he did on page 76

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
arm breeze whan they dump the slag on page 52
Hunders and hunders o the slag kynd. on page 118

2 matches

General Central

Steele, Gregor Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
Slag them aff fur ever mair!" on page 3

1 matches

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