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The word 'puddles'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
puddlesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.71210
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
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) 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 puddles in Corpus

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Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The rutted tracks that were puddles a month ago on page 16
Laevan icy puddles an greener fields on page 115

2 matches

Shetland

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
we caa'd de drooned wirms in puddles dat at de schöl, I'm no sure(2020)

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
st ma dug aye find the mockit puddles tae loup in an hiv a guid cla(2019)

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Puddles a wye nae a bonny sicht,
1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
fair enjoyed hearing you loup puddles. #FitBonny x(2015)

(South) East Central

Letford, William Bevel, (Carcanet 2012 ISBN: 978 1 84777 192 6) Central - Stirling, poetry
Puddles wur jumpin aroond the sparky'
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
f a wet astro pitch wae a few puddles ffs lol (2021) twitter link
lking on the road through the puddles lol (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
he Gairden, fleeted throu the puddles o gless. Even in his gutties,
1 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
this treatie, seys he, whiles puddles o gowden tears formit aneath on page 14

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James The Lade, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
thon, the watterfa turned tae puddles. Lake the wie ye’d whiles f
1 matches

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