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The word 'warrior'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
warriorOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus93017
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 137.6 3 1
SEC - (South) East Central 19.5 8 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 15.8 12 8
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 warrior in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
He's a peedie blinkan warrior wha treats life like a game on page 14

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
aggie cliff-heids, rived like warrior's scoors alang the quarry's f
1 matches

General Northern

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - A keik at the Swedish game o bandy, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
a baa as the main icons o the warrior yirded aneath it. An here in
1 matches

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
Athena admired the gallus warrior and she wis ayewis gled tae h on page 28
be helpin him. But the brave warrior couldna complain. He still ha on page 30
The warrior knelt afore his faither. on page 57

3 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 125, (self-published 2004) Central, newspaper
Slavonic Wojciech, is "happy warrior" or as they say in Scots, "a
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
lol - so the big mans a fone warrior - thats worse than a keyboar (2021) twitter link
@garyfooty mans a warrior m8 - defo missed (2020) twitter link
e jist a private eye keyboard warrior m8 - sits oan the fence 2 mu (2020) twitter link
@WStewartGK what a fuckin warrior - luved the guy - rip ma so (2020) twitter link
emember it well - a football warrior - b oan ma son! https://t.co (2021) twitter link
and 1 other occurrences.

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
n the notion o ilk man bein a warrior. Tae these fowk the king's id on page 19
yon auld warrior must hae run in the veins o t on page 21

2 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
justice warrior, but this isn't right. Men sh on page 12

1 matches

General Central

Crichton, Tam Lallans 84 - Ower the Faem Pairt Twa: Doon the Watter, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
that, ye've a rare gift for a warrior, lad!' on page 54
yin tae gar masel feel like a warrior, the day I wad fecht for real on page 55
t I wis gettin yaised tae the warrior life. Noo I didna think I cou on page 60

4 matches

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Framed by Arran's warrior still, on page 13

1 matches

Moodie, Gordon D. Lallans 102 - Stirling Brig, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, poetry
Ah'm frae the warrior caste. on page 49

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
A warrior ti his very spurs! on page 35

1 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
Betty's poem 'Gowd': 'They're warrior wimmen, Pictish princesses, c on page 91

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
o the Pechts sic as A Pictish Warrior Holding a Human Head (A Pecht
ding a Human Head (A Pechtish Warrior Haudin a Human Heid) and A Pi
2 matches

Fenton, Janet A Guid New Year tae yin and a!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central, blog
iong cries himsel a 'Language Warrior' - a bonny leid fechter.
1 matches

@bigandymccoll tweeted
t is jist Sturgeon's keyboard warrior - that's all he ever was in (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Tindal, Betty Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
till this wee warrior grew dark as a tinkler wean on page 156

1 matches

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