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The word 'carrot'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
carrotOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.52115
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.7 5 3
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 5
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) 88.3 1 1
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 carrot in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Hid is the carrot that tempts the donkey. When on page 43

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ppit the champagne an cream o carrot soup afore tacklin a queer-le on page 18

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
hid brocht a sup sugar, an a carrot oot frae the hoose neist door
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
pit wi strae, wi a neep heid, carrot neb an a jaiket
1 matches

Aberdeen

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
eth tae receive the proffered carrot. As the lantern jaws crunched
1 matches

General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
@joeheenan Carrot, ingin an a bit o neep. A mea(2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
k tae masel, This twenty-four-carrot lunatic is somehow takin the on page 64
wey doon the kennels that the carrot-topped cretin stoaps in front on page 161

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
Pare tattie an carrot an ingin
He tried his first carrot this denner
2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ht - cos of the independence carrot she keeps preachin tae us - (2020) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
day, he said, Did yees pit a carrot oot yet fur the reindeer? on page 41

1 matches

Dundee

Robertson, Gary A Wee Dundee Xmas Poem, (Lidl 2020) Central, poetry
Xmas Eve, some mulk, an a carrot fir Rudolph too
1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
s darkened oot hallwey is his carrot toap heid. Dougie, oan the ot
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Black Cuddy, (Scottish Book Trust 2019) Central, prose
ye did. She gied him the last carrot, and clapped his neck, and he on page 4

1 matches

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
him awa ti Baker's Square for carrot cake an a suppie iced tea, ti on page 30

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
cht road as lang as there's a carrot in front o it, and a stick ah on page 108

2 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
an nuzzled his pouch for the carrot he kent wis there as James sl on page 17

1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
e tofu let's throw that and a carrot i(2020)

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
An carrot tap ootside front dure on page 18

1 matches

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