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The word 'trailer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
trailerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.9139
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 2
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 2
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of trailer in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
aa on da beach wi dir quad an trailer gadderin waar. Whin da first on page 10

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
hillmen hunter an a great big trailer et ma unkil hid. We loaded th on page 20
aifter er eit thi baak o thi trailer. Noo, OV coarse twa car's app on page 68

3 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
r play? Ah wouldnae adee, the trailer wis keech! Mair Doric jokes h(2016)

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Those 'A' List bonkin trailer trash, on page 46

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
, takin’ the Minibus an’ trailer, with the students’ clothes
1 matches

General Central

@DABArbuckle tweeted
fowk we used tae cry 'inbred trailer trash'.(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
be available at 2pm the day! Trailer tae 'Words and Burds', presen (2020) twitter link
Hae a look at this trailer fir 'Tumshie', a new book fae (2020) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
e should o had the horse in a trailer no the back o a van. He then (2018)

General Ulster

Stewart, Kenny The Proota Field, (Facebook 2021) Ulster, poetry
danner up tae the oul tipping trailer a basket for tae fetch
1 matches

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