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The word 'shoppies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shoppiesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.963
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 2
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 shoppies in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
garages, banks, as mainner o shoppies an gey aften,
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
n are the Easter aiggs in the shoppies! https://t.co/TZRpc8P8cr(2016)
ne said we wis anely gyan tae shoppies fur a pint i' milk! Fit’s th(2018)
cyclopaedia Britannica at the shoppies onymair?(2018)
kin forrit tae the gairdening shoppies opening seen? #garden #garden(2020)

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
@FinHall Lot o wee bakers shoppies(2020)