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The word 'lime'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
limeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.12919
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 23.7 2 2
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 3
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of lime in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
And the lime green o the shorn field when on page 48

1 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
lime green, emerald or jade on page 100

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
odd butterwort flooer wi its lime green laeves, treacherously i on page 91

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ck an aathing in it, steen an lime ay gaed tae the loon, auld Sc
1 matches

Cormack, Liam Hallaeen, (The Gaudie 2019) Doric - Banff, poetry
e gettin sweeties, orange and lime
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
e day on dug walk. Identified lime kiln fae an aal map. Been won (2021) twitter link

Aberdeen

Abel, Charlie The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands) - Doric Corner, (DC Thomson 2024) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
kin o' brandy, files drank wi lime, egg 'n' sugar as a 'Pisco So on page 25

1 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 57 - Mac, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Doric, prose
-fower oors; an wis fun tip a lime-tree, faar he'd been chasin b on page 27

1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
love an export wi' voddie an lime on page 130
Noo ere's nae lemon nor a lime. on page 150

4 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
twist, fried Fittie fish wee lime & Bert bake(2017)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
He's wearin this mingin, lime green, Nike tracksuit. Which on page 129

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
creit fettled wi dods o fresh lime, sclimbin slaw to faa awaa in
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
r the previous faimily car, a lime green Ford Corsair which seem
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Mad Dog Twenty Twenty kiwi an lime flavour; Charlene said, Whit on page 131
Mad Dog Twenty Twenty kiwi an lime flavour but the wummin didnae on page 169

3 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
s banes burned an crushed tae lime, on page 112

1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
wey tae the cupboard near the lime green microwave and produces
1 matches

General Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
or cargo, Scots coal an Irish lime - daurk an licht. on page 55

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
he had stertit tae pit on the lime. Aa the hill fermers in the p on page 17

4 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Three days in October, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
range, crimson, gowd, russet, lime green, yellae. Braithtakkin s
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
saut an baccy, kye an lime, on page 77

1 matches

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