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The word 'engineer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
engineerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.23411
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 99.2 16 1
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 48.4 4 2
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 654 4 1
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 engineer in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
is first sea voyage as ship's engineer on the Blue Star Line.
in the toon, tae be a ship's engineer an sail the muckle oceans. He
muckle oceans. He hid won his engineer's ticket wi nae devaul fur th
3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
“We canna afford tae pye an engineer tae sort it.”
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
It's a sair fecht tae 'engineer' a shift in the wey fowk yais
1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Nae engineer
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
urgh well done tae kennie the engineer and all the people who have w (2020) twitter link

West Central

Steele, Gregor When Scotty said “Scunner”, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
Wis a word frae Engineer Scott.
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
intit tae spick til, the site engineer, bit he wis ayweys shut insid
The engineer, a slicht man, wis startlet a
“Ay-y-y,” sayed the engineer, slawly. “There wis a verti
The engineer leukit at him in disbelief.
d come ower whan he heard the engineer’s vyce raised. He collectit
16 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
ust be adjusteed to the sound engineer wi the confidence a' those wh on page 3

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
the chief engineer on the Starship Enterprise on page 70

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ae Mechanical Engineer (gearbox expert, accordin tae
biggit fur the Engineer whae wis i chairge o the Yill
2 matches

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
een Robert Stephenson railway engineer hailed fae NE AND Robert Stev (2020) twitter link

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
The Ullans engineer on page 43

4 matches

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