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The word 'macaroni'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
macaroniOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.21710
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.7 5 3
WCE - West Central 23 5 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 2
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 macaroni in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
breed an butter, macaroni-cheese pies on page 9

1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Nae packets o macaroni an cheese on page 150
aa she got wiz a macaroni pie. on page 172

2 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
Antrin len-wirds like "macaroni" disna need ony rules made fo
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Shudder at the Niffer, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
ssimilate foreign wirds like "macaroni" uphaud their ain spellins).
1 matches

Letford, William This Is It, (Scottish Poetry Library 2016) Central - Stirling, poetry
outside Gregs eatin a macaroni pie an a
macaroni pie, bit singin, wee man, yur
2 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
thing we dinnae put in a pie. Macaroni is very popular, so is haggis(2020)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ma heid lik a turban, munchin macaroni cheese while ah waitet fur ma on page 35
Wur makin macaroni cheese in Home Ec themorra. A on page 145
The macaroni wis mingin. Ah endet up eatin on page 146
ed tae the lid ae a microwave macaroni cheese that said, Gone out fo on page 169

5 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
- they kennt whit Marshall's macaroni wis, bit pasta meant naethin on page 73

1 matches

@d_anderson878 tweeted
think A cuid haunnle thon! A macaroni pie the morin aidter is aboot(2020)

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
In a plate o chips and macaroni cauld as a begyar's erse, on page 43

1 matches

General Central

@fairpechtoot tweeted
tly got mair plates than Tony Macaroni's.(2017)