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The word 'caffeine'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
caffeineOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.41111
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 16.3 3 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 caffeine in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
f oxytocin. Or maybe it's the caffeine. I dunna ken but I'm feeling (2020)

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
speth. "Ah'm tryin te cut oot caffeine - Ah'll bi up aa nicht." on page 29

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
coffee” - eence ah’ve had caffeine ah’m aa het up an riggit tae(2019)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
cup ae coffee. Jist a little caffeine boost before ah hit the drink on page 141

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
o| poisonin she had - it wis caffeine poisonin fae ma energy drink on page 169

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
Every wan ae us is hyper. The caffeine in the wine has done its job. on page 16

1 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
zing cauld but the alcohol an caffeine an aw that in it seems tae wa on page 174

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
€™s a wee espresso, a blast a caffeine tae the brain that keeps you
1 matches

General Central

@g_hibby tweeted
there.. ??.. I'll away for ma caffeine and joos.. Later peeps. (2022) twitter link

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
he Lassie new socks wioot the caffeine stain an in richtfu fit a col(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
opausal noo. Mebbe it wis the caffeine? Ah rarely drink coffee, an h(2020)