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The word 'plumber'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
plumberOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.51511
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.5 6 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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 plumber in Corpus

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Shetland

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

1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - The Bigger Hoose, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
Dod's the gairdner ...an the plumber an the cheffooer an the gener on page 105

1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
Trades Fortnight fan I wis a plumber but summer holidays fae the m (2020) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
ntin a twa metre stick at the plumber the day(2020)

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
lectrician's tubin an dauds o plumber's pottie. Ye pressed a bit po on page 86

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 68 - The Fower Jyners o the Apocalypse, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
flairs i the cludgies for the plumber!" on page 26

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 82 - The Cream Cookie, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Midlothian, prose
insyne thare wis juist twa, a plumber an a young jyner cried Hecky on page 58

3 matches

Letford, William Bevel, (Carcanet 2012 ISBN: 978 1 84777 192 6) Central - Stirling, poetry
The plumber told mi no eh complicate thin
1 matches

General Central

@iainnicol tweeted
inna hug their electrician or plumber.(2020)

@billykayscot tweeted
uckle Chantywrastler can be a plumber as weel.(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
Emailed a plumber for a quote to fix ma washin (2020)

@weenell3 tweeted
kinnon He's forever calling a plumber oot tae unblock his u-bend ?? (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
the Snoot, the laist Pairish Plumber, stertit
1 matches

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