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The word 'sergeant'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sergeantOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.52511
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 36 11 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 20.5 4 2
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 1
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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 sergeant in Corpus

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Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gallows Ha - The Weather Dance, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
The Dashing White Sergeant tuk tae the floor. on page 28

1 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The Dashing White Sergeant tuk tae the floor on page 154

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
wis gyan in tae Capernaum, a sergeant cam up till him an speirt at on page 16
he held awa tae Capernaum. A sergeant there hid a fee'd-man att he on page 90
e gied up e ghaist. Noo fan e sergeant saw iss, he praised God, sayi on page 120

6 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
e next day that the detective sergeant and a constable peyed her a v
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
a burst mooth. That wiz until Sergeant Redress came. He wiz a comple
bein quick o wit, renamed him Sergeant Reederse because he wint aboo
Sergeant Reederse gaed gyte and teen a
y handed ower the unconscious Sergeant Reederse tae the medics telli
4 matches

Aberdeen

Leslie, Dawn Press and Journal 2023-12-02 - Doric Corner, (no publisher recorded 2023) Doric, newspaper
me gettin up te mischief Pipe Sergeant o the Kintore Pipe Band, an w
1 matches

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
nded up the wimmin. Next, the Sergeant had them aa marchin roond the on page 83

1 matches

West Central

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
irst dance, The Dashing White Sergeant. In a way, it worked that I c
en already, The Dashing White Sergeant is a dance where your three p
2 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
ent agreement. Like ahm their sergeant getting them ready fur war. on page 23

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
e two pupils late fur class. 'Sergeant Muldoon and Constable Blakley on page 58
lliams' ego aside ... this is Sergeant Muldoon and PC Blakley, your on page 59

3 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ad luik gey like it!' quo his sergeant, tae coorse lauchter frae som on page 46
awled Claverhouse in a rage. 'Sergeant, draw up a detail tae end thi on page 47

2 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
d heid back. But whit wad the Sergeant say tae him? Shuirly he wadna on page 17

1 matches

Kelly, Anne Social Dancin, (self-published 2003) Central, weans
When ye're dashing the White Sergeant
1 matches

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