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The word 'cafe'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cafeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.53118
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 3
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 36 11 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21.9 2 1
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 2
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 cafe in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
t fag-packet an lighter oan a cafe table: on page 5

1 matches

@HJosephineGiles tweeted
twt an the yiddish anarchist cafe, a'm content wi this transiti (2021) twitter link

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
I cood tak her tae da Harbour Cafe fur ..." on page 38

2 matches

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
We göd doon tae da cafe an got twa cups a tae. Still
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
oat and double decker Belmont cafe #unstagram(2013)

Mid Northern A

Fairbairn, Jamie The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands) - Doric Corner, (DC Thomson 2024) Doric - Banff, newspaper
n Toon". In o ess toon er's a cafe. Tak yer pick - onythin fae on page 37

1 matches

Goodall, Phyllis J. Doric Sweet Talk, (timberford.demon 2000) Doric, poetry
In a cafe in Cullen
The cafe in Cullen
In the Cafe in Cullen,
O the Cullen Cafe.
4 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
has cheesecake fae auld Mart Cafe Maud an doesnae share nae mai(2015)
e an funcy biscuits aat Cyber Cafe aat Cruden Bay IT Services ht(2016)
sty fishcakes aat The Dolphin Cafe Peterhead ging try, richt tas(2017)
rd for lunch fae The Old Mart Cafe in Maud, fa's been? https://t(2017)

@FaeFoggie tweeted
oon wis sellin Stovies in his cafe. Fan it arrived, I nearly fel(2019)
d off as Stovies in a Glasgow cafe fan I wis doon a filey back. (2019)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 84 - Jamie’s Day Oot, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
addie bi the door. 'Hard Rock Cafe, eh? Ah widna teen ye for een on page 43

2 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
@d_anderson878 Oor village cafe his a Muckle breakfast and a (2020)
A cafe I a baby coo roon here min ht(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
de ye ken fer ya hae yer wee cafe in Fittie, I used tae go fer (2016)
bar disnae ken if she wants a cafe or a pub if ye ask me! Bring (2018)
e yon mannie fae the Pavilion cafe doon the beach! https://t.co/(2020)

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Tartan Tourism nae mair, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
ye wi a Union Jack fleein, a cafe cried the Hungry Highlander a
1 matches

General Central

@FaetheRye tweeted
smashing haggis toastie in a cafe in Killie. (2022) twitter link

@OliphantWullie tweeted
Dae ye gan tae the pub? A wee cafe mibbe? The fitba? Ye'll hear (2022) twitter link
r Maister's Hoose has crackin cafe wi braw coffee & scran. Tak a (2022) twitter link

@DABArbuckle tweeted
nt a wee coffee in a rerr wee cafe ah'd recommend tae ye the Wat(2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
w walk endin at the fantastic cafe (2021) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
t there is every McDonalds or cafe oan every peak?! ?? nae only (2020)