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The word 'rabbits'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
rabbitsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.12920
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
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 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 42.5 4 1
EDN - Edinburgh 25.1 4 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 37.4 3 2
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 62.8 2 1
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 rabbits in Corpus

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Orkney

Towrie, David Wirkin' the Tang - a dialect tale, (Orkneyjar 2010) Orkney, prose
ed guid yuse o' his time. The rabbits wir aye plentiful tae get and
1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
in oardered aroond bi mice an rabbits. I nearly wiss I widna a geen on page 35

1 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
oorse we didna cast oot wi da rabbits i da winter, dat's afore dat on page 15
up, shü's shurly gane eftir rabbits again." on page 48

2 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
n ordered aboot by moosies an rabbits. A almost wish A hedna gone d on page 33

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Goodall, Phyllis J. Cabrach Days, (timberford.demon 2000) Doric, poetry
There's naething but rabbits grazin noo
1 matches

General Northern

Devlin, Edwin The School Dentist 1969, (Facebook 2020) Doric, prose
d tack oor slug guns and shot rabbits and hares we widna starve ah
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
like a pair ae scared fuckin rabbits. Ah came acroass the hing whi on page 185

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
er tae buy it, an the likes o rabbits an hares, doos an phaesants f
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
are like rabbits in the heidlichts o the jugge on page 37

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
lads wha were oot early eftir rabbits at the back o the Law, an he on page 30
e fer centuries fowk had taen rabbits, birds an mebbe even deer fae on page 82

3 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
nna rin fest eneuch tae catch rabbits. Yet he haes owerance o aa th
s, siclike as the rattons and rabbits — ar they wir freends or wi
nin and syne haed gane huntin rabbits, ithoot fashin theirsels tae
wis tae tame the rattons and rabbits), the Whiter Oo Muivement for
4 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
telt whit tae dae bi mice an rabbits. Ah sometimes wish ah'd never on page 35

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
ein bossed aboot by mouses an rabbits. I juist aboot wish I'd never on page 34

1 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
per is photies o' kittens an' rabbits an' whit yer next door neighb on page

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
se weans are disappearin like rabbits! But dinnae worry aboot it! T on page 135

1 matches

Harrison, Jean Lallans 59 - BARRY SCHUIL 1928 - 1934, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
awye. The wee anes were bunny rabbits or mup-mups. S was for sweeti on page 120

1 matches

@iainnicol tweeted
n some absolute wappin muckle rabbits.(2020)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Shy reynard, rabbits fresh they paw on page 15
As if was dug by rabbits on page 24

2 matches

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
bein ordered aboot b' mice an rabbits. Ah near wish Ah hidnae gan d on page 34

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
lean lurcher dugs chasin rabbits on page 15

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
een shae had pit on yin o the rabbits wee white kid-gloves whin sha on page 20
aein ordert aboot bae mice an rabbits. A near enuch wish A hadnae g on page 35

2 matches

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