A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'prawns'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
prawnsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.966
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 prawns in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Fit aboot prawns? The man wis speerin Ye can k on page 15

1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Posh food like prawns on page 150

1 matches

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
There's prawns in the freezer wi chips an gr
1 matches

Dundee

McKenzie, Roddy Cataracts, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2018) Central - Dundee, prose
op, yi see ther een; oot like prawns, thim drawin` back slowly, li
1 matches

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
t a would need tae substitute prawns!..Anyway back tae ma nicht-ti(2015)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
(white wine sauce, eggs, nae prawns)?(2020)