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The word 'cape'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
capeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4118
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 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) 102.5 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of cape in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
or Cape Canaveral I discover on page 16

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
hair. Sally Bruce hid a tweed cape buttoned roon her neck, an a
1 matches

General Northern

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
tae get up early tae wash ma cape(2016)
here afore skittered ma yella cape awfa sotter.(2016)
STVAberdeen ? Whaurs ma wooly cape and thermal banana hammock?(2016)

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
loss Schottenburg, his velvet cape flappin insteid o an auld gre on page 77

1 matches

Edinburgh

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 68 - Gairdens, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
Auld-farrant hair and cape and knee-breiks, on page 98

1 matches

General Central

@Chazzbat tweeted
@wildethingy Ah bocht a cape this year. This wan. https://(2020)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
doon frae ae ferm job anenst Cape Wrath, richt i the tap Nor Wa
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
an pushed bak tha cowl o her cape. She wus gye oul an wrinkleâ€
wife sayed. She kiltit up her cape an John wus tuk bak at tha si
2 matches

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