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The word 'dosh'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
doshOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.71914
ORK - Orkney
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.5 6 6
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 15.1 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of dosh in Corpus

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Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
ead me writing, an stick some dosh in me Ko-fi ?? thanks https:/(2021)

Aberdeen

@Woodside Wullie tweeted
hemselves wi glee flashin oot dosh tae yon lobbying gypeheidgend (2021) twitter link

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
ooze, nae fags, nae blaw, nae dosh, nae wummin. Nae friggin hope on page 1

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
s (Why no, whan ye've got the dosh?) on page 16

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
But nursery nurses need mair dosh!
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
when it come tae getting the dosh for his addictions, ye cuid s
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
Danny takes yin look at the dosh and confirms ‘’Aye, mate.
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
Tranent aye bit ur makkin the dosh m8 - its a cinch lol (2020) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ought she'd welcome the extra dosh noo that her mas cut her pock on page 136

1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
e hoaliday colour. I tap some dosh fae Iona tae buy two matchin on page 3

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
each of us a rolled up wad a dosh.
He haunded her the dosh and she showed us a changin r
2 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
doolicks. Naw, it's nae aboot dosh an' dosh an' mair an' mair do on page

3 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
ons lawyers get peyed loads o dosh. The money is an incentive - on page 84

3 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
yers donate some ae their ain dosh tae save the gemme they love (2020)

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