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The word 'splash'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
splashOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus12.23932
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 25.6 10 6
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 16.3 3 3
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 2
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 2
SWE - South West (Galloway) 55.6 4 4
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of splash in Corpus

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Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
How aboot a splash?? https://t.co/5ivmtJeVFs (2020) twitter link

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
lipped, an in anither meenad, splash! she wis up till her chin in on page 19

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Splash it aa ower," he cried, grinni on page 54

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Joyce drookit him wi a great splash o caal watter. on page 13

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
sea, far she lans wi a meikle splash. An she's there tae this verr
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@fiercebeer I'd splash some I iss ower ma stovies.(2019)
seein iss pic i ither day. A splash o i middle een wid di I trick(2019)

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Wee quinie, we love tae splash aa through i'dubs on page 185

1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
moo fey o’ banana and a wee splash o’ tea? #breakfast(2019)

@cligeey tweeted
odunzerafc @ScottSMackenzie A splash nae doric bit a roch measurem(2020)

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
d stanes in, listenin fur the splash fae the black watter an makin on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
t. No tae mention ah generous splash ae Hugo Boss aftershave. Stil on page 167
Ah quickly splash a bit ae hand sanitizer oor m on page 178

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
I could paiddle, splash an dook
1 matches

Gilmour, Rosie Shoapaholic, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
Sae a kin splash the cash in the sales
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
l efter closing time, wallop, splash, end of story.
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
nna beat the stinging when ee splash it oan specially efter eeve u (2020) twitter link
air doon n hud a pairty - so splash oan the auld spice n santas o (2020) twitter link
r does that mean its time tae splash tax payers cash again - rais (2020) twitter link
ook good - why b a plonker n splash the cash when u can get ur ex (2020) twitter link

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
aw! They'll happily print yer splash, Juist drap the knickers! on page 46

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
ipped, an, afore she knew it, splash! she wis up tae her chin in s on page 20

1 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
d at the boattum, landin wi a splash in the other puddle ae vomit. on page 3

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
me oot. Pearcey hud heard the splash an woken him afore they ran o
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
fuit slippt, an in a saicont, splash! she wis up tae her chin in s on page 20

1 matches

Neill, Willie Lallans 59 - Christian Henry Divertimento, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
pleisure didna splash me, on page 10

1 matches

General Central

Crichton, Tam Lallans 84 - Ower the Faem Pairt Twa: Doon the Watter, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
er a whilie we could hear the splash o oars as the trader ship cam on page 57

1 matches

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
joy if ye win the lottery an' splash oot oan a lifetime's supply o on page

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
As lippers mark a chuckie's splash, on page 3
A splash mair siller than the lave on page 17

2 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Wad a splash o' Brut improve yer chances on page 14

1 matches

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
ipped, an in anither saicint, splash! She was up tae hur chin in s on page 19

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
oan yer side wi a Gleswegian splash. Ye werenae the first wan an on page 77

1 matches

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
thochts tae enter, cross and splash aboot, on page 29

1 matches

Drosten, John Lallans 67 - Fower Poems bi John Drosten, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
it wasna juist thon bit splash on page 135

1 matches

McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 12, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
s haulin in a good yin, a big splash aff it,
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
t slippt, an the nixt minute, splash! shae wus up tae hir neck in on page 21

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Thompson, Mark Address to a Nintendo DS, (Ullans Magazine 2012) Ulster - Ards, poetry
It gien a splash, an then it droon’t
1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Tae splash intae the tide. on page 49

1 matches

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