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The word 'chocolates'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
chocolatesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.8167
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 2
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 chocolates in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
es in a jam jar, an a boxie o chocolates stappit aneth her oxter.
coo’s candy, an caramels an chocolates aa yer favourites.”
chocolates. Aabody kens yer granny wun t
3 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
fur ae i' their delicious het chocolates! http://t.co/LR8sV9nf2p(2015)
aeten aa yer advent calendar chocolates or galshiks and smacherry! ht(2019)

Aberdeen

Leslie, Dawn Press and Journal 2023-12-02 - Doric Corner, (no publisher recorded 2023) Doric, newspaper
the hale thing an aet aa the chocolates in ae go... aat canna jist be
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
tae oor hoose wi a big box ae chocolates an a thank you letter. Y'know on page

1 matches

Glasgow

Atkins, Elise Billy Barr ’n’ Jonny Jimison’s Day Oot!, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Central, prose
windae there wur aw kinds ae chocolates, toffees an’ fudges, lollip
middle ae the shoap that hid chocolates piled high.
2 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
greatest inventor and makar o chocolates there ever wis. And whit a br on page 7
ade aw thae braw sweeties and chocolates and that. But he wis feenishe on page 20
year. And ken whit else? 'The chocolates and sweeties it's been turnin on page 21
aw o them will be gien enough chocolates and sweeties tae last them th on page 23
voice will say, "EAT WONKA'S CHOCOLATES! THEYRE THE BEST IN THE HAILL on page 147

6 matches

Harrison, Jean Lallans 59 - BARRY SCHUIL 1928 - 1934, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
ife o it an live aff boaxes o chocolates wi ribbons an fancy picters o on page 120

1 matches

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