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The word 'cigars'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cigarsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.555
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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)
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 cigars in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
paper and a packet o moments cigars. We aa need ti keep oor eens (2020)

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
body in the place wis smokin cigars an, sippin wine
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
e he's still smokin his cheap cigars, Yin clumsily danglin fae his on page 182

1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
kent her faither kept a box o cigars. She took wan oot and cairrie on page 204

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
awthin, includin sweeties and cigars ... and whit he wid dae, he w on page 50

1 matches

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