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The word 'waiter'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
waiterOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.8369
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 45.8 14 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 169.6 14 2
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 waiter in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
air uncomfortible es the wine waiter cam roon an Billy tastit bait on page 34
Efter aboot hauf an oor, the waiter cam wi the denner. He'd a fit on page 35
te find a smile fir the young waiter wi the ticht briks. on page 45
"It says here at the waiter taks ye tull yer seat an show on page 49

6 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
llion risin inside him as the waiter teen their order. on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
teen a glaiss o wine fae the waiter an toured roon the exhibition on page 30

2 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
thing the cook caad a “dumb waiter”, like a wee cupboard wi a
ets fulled and intae the dumb waiter. As she made tae tak doon the
e stairs tae haul up the dumb waiter. That wiz fin she saw him sta
3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
it doon air like an oot o the waiter troot. Syne he’d say “Gwe
e. Suzy’s teeth sterted lae waiter.
2 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
Cried the waiter, "Watch oot, on page 71

1 matches

Glasgow

Logan, Kirsty Lego, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
The waiter came tae take wur order. I ca
till telt ma mammy I wid. The waiter looked roon at ma sister, wai
2 matches

General Central

Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
Waiter on page 1
s wan time A whispers tae the waiter fir the bill. Me an 'is laddi on page 2

4 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
Gers player bein asked bi the waiter if he wantit ginger wi his me(2020)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
owre the hill tae Borth’ick Waiter Heid, via the Auld Toun.
ns doun intil the Borth’ick waiter
dancing the waiter heid fock bruikit, i yonner n
ferm doon the waiter, ca’d Eilrig; wheech mairch
haim ferms ir nou pairt o the waiter heid aforestation, an
13 matches

@jamie_ginger tweeted
rinking get up and leave. The waiter chases efter them. U pay u pa(2019)

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