A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'bap'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bapOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.91612
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 35.5 8 5
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bap in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Fairbairn, Jamie The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands) - Doric Corner, (DC Thomson 2024) Doric - Banff, newspaper
pick - onythin fae a saasage bap, a rowie or the hale jing ban on page 37

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
, Molly wis roon's a buttered bap, tho fit wis fat an fit wis b
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
coonter tae buy a currant bap. Wi a wechty clunk, a 5Op fel
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
jwattie Wis moppin it up wi i bap.(2020)

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
I'd like a bun, a rowie or a bap. on page 94

2 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
fite bap an jeelie an a wee cup o tea.
1 matches

TheChielMeister Oatcakes 'n' Cheese, (youtube.com 2009) Doric, poetry
Crowdie an' a bap, ah'm a richt grand fan
1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
ck eh' stoor aff an auld toon bap ye rocket min!(2015)
ee thochty o' coo's erse in a bap min? Thon @Angus_the_Bull1 ni(2017)
ck the stoor aff an auld toon bap. #MonEn #Doric #Fecht(2015)

@cligeey tweeted
ce Affa like a Cummings cream bap(2020)

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
uble lorne sausage an' haggis bap wi' a tattie scone chaser ivr on page

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 59 - A Stot an a Cleg, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, prose
l laif, he thinks, but jist a bap;
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Thompson, Mark The Lost Ness Monster, (clydesburn.blogspot.com 2009) Ulster - Ards Peninsula, poetry
Scrabo Tower like a bap
1 matches

General Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
Ballymena. I mean WTF is thon bap cap?? #Holylands #le19 https:(2019)