Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'toffee'

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Use in varieties of Scots

toffee	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	9.2	30	22
ORK - Orkney	9.9	1	1
SHD - Shetland	5.8	1	1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)	35.2	1	1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	9.8	3	2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	17.7	4	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	12.7	5	5
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee	31.9	3	1
EDN - Edinburgh	6.3	1	1
GLA - Glasgow	9.1	2	2
AYR - Ayrshire	13.1	1	1
LAL - General Central	6.6	5	4
SEA - South East (Borders)	12.5	1	1
SWE - South West (Galloway)	13.9	1	1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)	31.4	1	1
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 toffee in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Ur sticky toffee, risan steam, on page 116

1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
ard, pineaipple, rost turkey, toffee an hot buttered tost) so shö on page 13

1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
rd, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, an hot buttered toast), she on page 13

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
ee Tryin oot fowks' scones an toffee An idle chatter on page 15

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
Patty wis the colour o meltin toffee . It Patty's thick creamy milk
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
tons on tap, An we’re haein toffee aipples an ice
1 matches

General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
rson878 I dare say the chowie toffee wiz caad "Coo candy" because (2020)
@d_anderson878 Toffee (tablet) wiz fit mither an oo(2020)

(South) East Central

Allan, Alasdair Lallans 102 - Defenestration, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
; he cuidna teach physics for toffee. on page 82

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ae yin ae their ain than some toffee nosed bastard sittin behind a on page 143

1 matches

Clark, Sara Scot Free -The Psychic Cost O Uisin Scots, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
r ye'd buy a wee bit Highland toffee , or mak freends wi an English
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
o soor plooms, cinnamon baws, toffee doddles, cough candy, coulter
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
rsel ??. Just cannae cook for toffee ??(2020)

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
wis meant, this is it: Moffat Toffee. Hid tae be. https://t.co/b4f(2020)
Toffee is fit we aye cried tablet. T(2020)

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
kes. You could eat yur sticky toffee puddin oaff the fuckin lavy p
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
rt, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, an hoat buttert toast), she on page 13

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
Celtic weaves, cups, scerfs, toffee, rock, wee gemstones, "fossil on page 3

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
ne-aipple, roast bubbly-jock, toffee an het buttert toast), twae-t on page 13

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
TOFFEE AIPPLE TREES FOR PLANTIN OOT on page 137

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
ay?' She didna seem tae gie a toffee aboot ither folk, forby herse on page 2

1 matches

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
toffee-brittle on page 49

1 matches

Harrison, Jean Lallans 59 - BARRY SCHUIL 1928 - 1934, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
er Setterday penny. T wis for toffee yer mither made, treacle wis on page 120

1 matches

solonggaybowser Merlin's Bairns, (archiveofourown.org 2020) Central, prose
. Cranachan's gey couthie, an Toffee an aw aince he kens ye as a m
1 matches

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
o make a comment against that toffee-nosed snob with a muckle silv(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
dae songs or impressions fir toffee, And play ye guitar but Ah'm on page 77

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
art, pme-epple, roast turkey, toffee, an het buttert toast), shae on page 13

1 matches