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The word 'slaughter'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
slaughterOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.488
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
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 slaughter in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Sheu wisna gaan tae slaughter me. Relief near meed me seek. on page 40

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
as lambs wid tae a uncan slaughter, on page 62

1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Whilst daith and slaughter reigned oan Flanders Fields, on page 20

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
hot. They were aided in their slaughter by oor ranks bein’ compress
1 matches

General Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth The killin fields!, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ts Pairlament as ‘sickening slaughter’ an the First Mínister sha
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
veal, but mair than happy tae slaughter lambs by the hunners. Probabl(2020)

@rattlecans tweeted
is Get wi Americano or we'll slaughter ye" (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

The Westender Mairchers did oor toon prood, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
hev seen the evidence o' the slaughter of a whole generation of folk
1 matches

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