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The word 'teatime'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
teatimeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.11311
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 49.9 4 3
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 teatime in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
We slogged fae nearly teatime till weel by half-past nine on page 14

1 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Teatime wis alwis five oan the dot. on page 31

1 matches

Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
eCooking #ThinkItsVeganMaybe #TeaTime #DirsGonnaBeLeftowers https:/ (2020) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
've tae help wi the milkin at teatime.'
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
They'll soart this oot before teatime". But noo look, eh? The hale on page 139

1 matches

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
nd thir way intae his bowl at teatime. Naturally we did gie him tin
1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
oan. Cos it’s comin up fur teatime and that means only yin hing,
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
yed there tae it wis gey near teatime, and syne they had a Gey Near on page 122

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
h Hatter in a huff: "eet's ay teatime, an 00've nae time tae wash o on page 71

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Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
games wi us at dennertime an teatime, when we hed ti speir for wha
1 matches

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
ble! When a was a wee laddie, teatime but gettin’ auld it is dinne(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
tflix kept oan haud tae eftir teatime, urges purged an tholed on page 77

1 matches

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