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The word 'slower'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
slowerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.21412
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern 162.8 1 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
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 slower in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Waakan back wis slower, heavy pails swingan, peedie on page 35

2 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
hurt. Hoopfully dey'll drive slower fae noo on! Still a few norie(2013)

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
ower mukkul, eit gar's er gin slower, on page 69

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat If I Catch Ye I'll Eat Ye, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
twa till his breathing became slower and raised the musket tae his
1 matches

Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
had a broken leg so wis a bit slower than the lads...ended up in a (2022) twitter link

South Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Caw, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2020) Doric - Stonehaven, prose
that’d make the blood spurt slower. No that it maittered. The ot
1 matches

General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
Vine Ye'll hae tae spik a bit slower and louder min. Canna mak oot(2020)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
e “Silly Season” had been slower than usual, this wid sell new
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
hFA some roadmap this guys - slower than the city bypass - espec (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
uities so far. It's a calmer, slower burnin, less urgent though st on page 3

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Thir days Ah'm daunerin slower than afore on page 34
Thir days Ah'm daunerin slower than afore on page 40

2 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Cartmill, Claire Three score years an ten, (Ballymoney and Moyle Times 2014) Ulster, newspaper
e see A kno richtly am gettin slower in mae step than a ustae be b
1 matches

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