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The word 'laptop'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
laptopOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.72512
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 1
GLA - Glasgow 22.8 5 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 13.3 10 6
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of laptop in Corpus

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Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
My new laptop has arrived! Will try not ta (2021) twitter link
worlds up an runnin on da new laptop an I feel lik dis https://t.c (2021) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
she sut doon aside him wi her laptop an scrolled doon the page on on page 6

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ee ower the keyboord o ma new laptop. Seconds later, the computer on page 50
, "Noo, lut's git back te ess laptop an Ah'll show ye foo te compr on page 51

2 matches

Aberdeen

The Flying Pigs Use of the common good fund for slap-up feed merely follows in grand old tradition, (Press and Journal 2018) Doric, newspaper
stole my hairt (as weel as a laptop, some jewellery and a set oâ€
1 matches

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
stly adult.....I will not tak laptop tae bed(2011)

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
And oan the coffee table the laptop sits and is almost eggin me o
tart noo. Ah’ve whipped the laptop oaff the table and began firi
2 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
e temptation ae firin oan the laptop again. Ah need tae git massel
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
atch Lord ay the Rings oan ma laptop like I dae in times ay crisis on page 3

3 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
cked aw the news sites oan ma laptop.
™s a dry cough. Ah look at ma laptop. Dave and the rest o them are
2 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
hur bedside table. She hus a laptop. Maybe it's a sign the time h on page 90
hankin hur fur the loan o hur laptop. Ah cannae blame hur; it's gr on page 92

4 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
@MoosyerCoo92 I'm on the laptop.. And at the top of the home (2023) twitter link

@SusiBriggs1 tweeted
ing oot tae Curries for a new laptop ??????(2020)

@billykayscot tweeted
@arabshedboy Ok on the laptop, but disnae cast tae the tv v(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
@4Viewers On ma laptop, usin Chrome browser. Is this(2020)
chap fae work came tae fix ma laptop. https://t.co/ChpQ9uKsZF(2020)

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
n find the government oan yer laptop ???? https://t.co/NU9V6sl43Y (2022) twitter link

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