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The word 'apprentice'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
apprenticeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.22413
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 42 4 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 18 7 4
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 2
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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of apprentice 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 only an apprentice so I aalways get the dross." on page 35

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
s at university, David wis an apprentice plumber, and da rest wis stil on page 42

1 matches

Aberdeen

Facebook link (Doric Scots Books an Poems 2022) Doric - Aberdeen
As nae apprentice loons are ony mair cast
That turned mony apprentice loons intae Bakery Craftsmen

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric - Aberdeen, poetry
As nae apprentice loons are ony mair cast
That turned mony apprentice loons intae Bakery Craftsmen
2 matches

General Northern

Storrie Lewis, Jean Lallans 58 - The Bothy Loon, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
made up that I wis tae be an apprentice tae Auld Jack, the grocer. So on page 124

1 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 82 - Joco Geordie, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
r' an George, 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice'. I've aye said that ae day s on page 10

1 matches

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
'Granda ah'm an apprentice.' The windae didnae huv a por on page 7

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
An apprentice murderer: you cuid kill, aa r on page 23

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
back tae youthheid days as an apprentice laddie in 'bib an brace' dong
carpenter, an maist like, an apprentice ane, wi his daith on a piece
luiks back tae his days as an apprentice laddie in the fifties warkin
3 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
whit did he no see, but a wee apprentice laddie on his wey back abuird
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Clyde Built, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ipyerds efter that. He wis ma apprentice, ye see? That’s how we goat
1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
e groond ahint Arachne. “An apprentice needs something tae learn fae
™d murdered a man – his ain apprentice – an had had tae flee gey f
ried Icarus, that wis noo his apprentice. The palace itsel wis the
din her hoo she had saved his apprentice afore in Athens. An it wis th
Daedalus’s young apprentice had inventit a saw – someth
6 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
chynge her name tae Victoria APPrentice. Obviously still learnin tae (2021)

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
e been shrunk, Tae the size o apprentice tae husband's great wurk. on page 41

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Tha apprentice lads, o Derry toon, on page 33

1 matches

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