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The word 'caper'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
caperOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.7158
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 47.4 4 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 caper in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
fur spoots, an trip, an caper roond? on page 21

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
e paste - hoo wis that for a caper? on page 15

1 matches

Aberdeen

Facebook link (Doric Scots Books an Poems 2022) Doric - Aberdeen
rs shop, ere wis neen o' this caper

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric - Aberdeen, poetry
rs shop, ere wis neen o' this caper
1 matches

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
t recycling pit paid tae that caper
1 matches

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric - Aberdeen, poetry
Omg! Fit a caper!
1 matches

General Northern

TheChielMeister Nae mince in Moray, (youtube.com 2008) Doric, poetry
Fit kinna bliddy caper's this, eh?
1 matches

Noble, Brian , (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
me fit rare nicht for an affa caper
1 matches

(South) East Central

Morton, Elaine Lallans 61 - Twa poems, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Lothian, poetry
Ay, lat him caper noo I'm siccar hid, on page 60

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Noo gie owre that caper wi rolled-up newspaper -
1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Ay, lat him caper nou I'm siccar hid, on page 45
A caper as they seek tae dee for fair on page 46

2 matches

Waddell, John Lallans 58 - Three Waddins and Fowr Funerals - a monologue, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
far ower auld fur that sort o caper, bit wad he listen? He wis th on page 59

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Tindal, Betty Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
Or wid ye caper ower new green gress, on page 160
they caper tae firmer grun, on page 163

2 matches

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