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The word 'salad'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
saladOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.43013
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 26.2 8 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 39.9 9 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 25.1 4 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 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 salad in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 60 - The Three Hooses, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Shetland, weans
like a pig's lug in a Waldorf salad - the laird says, "Nou, whit
1 matches

@tattooedselkie tweeted
dis chicken, avocado an mango salad is tastier as it looks. I can(2021)

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Ah'll hae the prawn salad, please." Miraculously, Joyce on page 45

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Salad." on page 71

6 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
rtajamieson We wis pals until salad cream ??(2019)

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Makin a salad fir supper on page 167

7 matches

@cligeey tweeted
ect cut them oot Hid a tattie salad wee a twist the nicht ye will(2020)

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
esey bits oot o e' mozzarella salad sarnie? ??(2019)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ist folk mix in mayonnaise or salad cream wi the egg but Mither a
id. I think she had rin oot o salad cream in the past and decided
2 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
sticky rice, and Thai peanut salad thingy. Most stressful thing (2020)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
r it wis me ah had mixed bean salad fur malunch again. on page 89

1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
™ve favoured a boggin healthy salad. Efter ah’ve fired up his p
diced thum up. Ah prepare ma salad. Which consists ae lettuce, t
€˜â€™It’s the onions in the salad, son’’ ah sniffle. ‘’
e’s nae fuckin onions in ma salad. Ah quickly spring up fae ma
4 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Greenin salad days; unrimed o freest, on page 34

1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
ak, and Pats home made tattie salad for tea the night... That'll (2023) twitter link
ie.. So it's steak and tattie salad the night... She leads, me an (2023) twitter link

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