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The word 'wizard'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wizardOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.92312
ORK - Orkney
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 30.9 12 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of wizard in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
airns thocht he wis a magical wizard. Plays a mean mandolin / whis (2020) twitter link

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
like the Wizard o Oz on page 23

1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
We read i'Wizard o' Oz on page 85

2 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
r like Dorothy's hoose in The Wizard o Oz, intact but in peril, an on page 118

1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
beets, thon wee bugger wiz a wizard wi' e ba(2015)

(South) East Central

Moodie, Gordon D. Lallans 90 - Snoke Iz A Pithie Warlock, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
'Smell is a potent wizard' (Helen Keller 1880-1968) on page 78

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Deil and wizard had covered this steid, But T on page 13

1 matches

Muir, Glenn Ozsome, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ae the Emerald City whaur The Wizard o Oz wid aiblins help her oot
the Emerald City, aiblins the Wizard o Oz’ll gie ye some brains.
he Emerald City an see if the Wizard o Oz’ll gie ye a hert,” s
Tattie Bogle, “aiblins the Wizard’ll gie him some courage, if
re grantit an audience wi the Wizard o Oz (a deid ringer for Alex
10 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
d Kat's maw. 'Did ye get some wizard freens tae help ye oot?' on page 26

1 matches

Steele, Gregor Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
Wan wizard wi a spanner, on page 7

2 matches

@gordimhor1 tweeted
@stewartbremner Silly Wizard they Cunningham boys kent how(2019)

General Ulster

McCahon, Aileen Yarns 3 - Rid Button, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Ulster, poetry
Frae The Wizard O Oz
1 matches

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