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The word 'plums'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
plumsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.277
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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) 88.3 1 1
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 plums in Corpus

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General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
@GerryinAberdeen Tattie plums min(2020)

West Central

Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
ady’s neck like ripe summer plums. And jist as if she could hea
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
n a sniff, then he’s on tae plums.’ Scanlon draws his beak al
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
he wis ontae plums wi his wee ploy. But Coont Ol on page 99

1 matches

South East (Borders)

@Woodwinecoolers tweeted
@MickHill16 Aye she gave his plums a guid squeezing that's fir s (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - The Stert ae World War III?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
o, invites us o’er tae pick plums in his gairden. Thir deliciou
1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James The Lade, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
low, hirded rottin o his blak plums, agane the scholars’ glammi
1 matches

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