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The word 'craps'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
crapsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus51610
ORK - Orkney
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
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 52.4 4 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 153.7 3 2
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of craps in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
yer - livestock an growe yer craps - " on page 52

1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Craps fer flat ey div begin tae dre
1 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
ed berries, aye an affa gweed craps."
Ony craps tae be cut wid be in richt fe
2 matches

West Central

Hardie, George Lallans 59 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
or toilan at the craps on page 129

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ail-dykes in guid repair, his craps wad be safe. on page 50
aes an keppin thaim oot o the craps; sneddin the thistles that gr on page 55
wad glean whit they cuid frae craps blighted an unripened by sunl on page 63
ep the yowes an nowt frae the craps or the neibours' grun; an you on page 74

4 matches

General Central

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 73 - Cain, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Weil, see, wi aa that craps tae sell, on page 72

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
n. In Eurasia, the kenspeckle craps an baists at are noo economic
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Scott, Hamish Eemis Stane 1 - Fields o Stanes, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
the bairns an growin sumkin 'craps'. He wirkit it lik the wee bi on page 21

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Fur he growes tha craps an rairs tha mate tae feed oo on page 22

1 matches

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
ha grun wus dry as banes, tha craps still growein strecht, an no
ur weel-settle’t noo an tha craps wus comin oan in tha fiels.
2 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
otchin wi beese, wi gress, wi craps on page 14

1 matches

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