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The word 'packets'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
packetsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.12017
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 1
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 packets in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Stickan peedie plastic packets in a modern microwave. on page 44

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
ald reports comed oot by slow packets, hilligo advertiseens an feen on page 73

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Furst Time, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
ehind you, you will find some packets of biscuits on the shelf. Wil
1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Fit tae dae aboot obesity?, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
aria an Lanzarote ye’ll see packets o cigarettes lyin aboot in iv
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

1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
addo an hour ago tattie crisp packets appeared again lying aboot ji(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
e o’yon widden box & aboot 3 packets fell oot! Then used tae sell (2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
neighbour and gee her yin ae packets ae toilet roll. If that, bit on page 141

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
three times in a row tae buy packets a chewin gum, said ma ma, The on page 109
ever. Aye, she said, Ah'd two packets ae pickult onion Space Raider on page 145

2 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
wi wraiths, paper pokes, and packets o thaim bogles on page 29

1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Teeger that Cam for his Tea, (Floris Kelpies 2018 ISBN: 978-1782504665) Central, weans
...an aw the packets an pokes in the press... on page 15

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
as weel, sae they bocht a few packets o dessert mix. Mebbes, they t on page 42

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
lue paint, concrete and crisp packets. There wis a chipped, wooden, on page 38

1 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
pes ye hid tae hiv, lik three packets o salt an puns o tatties an a on page 45

1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
are cakes or biscuits... the packets gone in ten seconds and not o(2020)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ined up tae colleck thair pey packets, it wurna onlyke gitting
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
tuim packets fae unner imagined trees on page 43
packets openin, a neb that still tell on page 70

2 matches

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