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The word 'poppy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
poppyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.11311
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 42.2 3 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of poppy in Corpus

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General Northern

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
nd niver will. And some chum, Poppy or Millie or Tilly, will say
1 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
I sauntered throught the poppy fields on page 122

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
maw n da huv git a wee bit ae poppy tucked away, enough tae git a on page 7

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
No dain too bad fur the auld poppy the noo but ah’ll get tae t
1 matches

General Central

Shepherd, J. Barrie Lallans 82 - Crab Toon Crail, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
Through July poppy crammassy on page 40

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
d tae come oot rumpelt like a poppy. She wadna kythe but in the b on page 31

1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
ely oan the charity money fae poppy sales because o the like o yo(2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
ely oan the charity money fae poppy sales because o the like o yo(2020)

South East (Borders)

The Westender Mairchers did oor toon prood, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
atever reason, still bought a poppy. Was it juist mei or did they
t's still important tae buy a poppy, no juist tae show yer suppor
2 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Like the poppy tuk frae Flanders Field, on page 26
Nor wear the Poppy, lay the flowers, on page 28

2 matches

@OrangRuth tweeted
e with a Linfield scarf and a poppy or 4(2019)

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