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The word 'grease'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
greaseOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.11312
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 23.7 2 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 grease in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
lees Nae chippy suppers foo o grease Like human fowk on page 15

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
uce, Minnie's da, wis clartin grease on the binder, fool orra brut
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Angels Ten, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
hing happened an I thocht the grease I’d pitten in the suspensio
1 matches

Mid Northern B

Johnston, Shaun The Forkie Gollach, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
A wid be up tae ma oxters in grease and dirt. Ma freens thocht it
1 matches

Aberdeen

Facebook link (Doric Scots Books an Poems 2022) Doric - Aberdeen
The grease seepin' through the paper bag

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric - Aberdeen, poetry
The grease seepin' through the paper bag
1 matches

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
ve oot the wrappers, wipe the grease fae yer moo an start ower. Go(2020)

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
sna gum though. It wis candle grease. Y'ken I like a read in bed m on page 23

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Glesgy Screwdriver, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
t! Nor ony lang stands, elbae grease nor tartan pent naither!" on page 97

1 matches

Peffers, Bob A Aboot Mid-Camps, Kirnitten, Bi East Cawther, (peffers50.freeserve 2002) Central - Fife, prose
r o hoosehold soda saip ,elby grease an a muckle mangle. She wa af
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Like Olivia Newton John in Grease on page 14

1 matches

Ayrshire

Lehane, Matt Mouse Eat Mouse World, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
the nuclear grease monkey's refrain
1 matches

General Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
id throu a grainy sort o axle-grease state, that hauds for a meeni on page 72

1 matches

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