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The word 'margarine'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
margarineOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1104
ORK - Orkney
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
WCE - West Central 27.6 6 1
DUN - Dundee
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 margarine in Corpus

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General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
'At fan I tell ye I like margarine on page 80

2 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
lastic box, she took a bittie margarine and spread it on the breid. on page 183
she took a slice o breid and margarine and sterted tae eat it. At ha on page 184
da said, chowin her breid and margarine. on page 185
sterted eatin it slowly. The margarine wisnae that bad. She doubted on page 187
ie milk and tea and breid and margarine. That's aw ah need really. As on page 197

6 matches

Glasgow

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
e done and ma hair slicked wi margarine like usual. A remember that p on page 38

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
y could afford were breid and margarine tae their breakfast, biled ta on page 5

1 matches

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