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The word 'cocktail'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cocktailOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus62016
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.5 6 4
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 25.1 5 4
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 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)
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 cocktail in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
e bar te dunce, shakkin their cocktail makkers, an luttin aff spairk on page 15
airter. "Ah hivna hid a Praan Cocktail fir a lang time...very 'retro on page 28

2 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
ein a whisky tastin, a whisky cocktail makin lesson an a cask draw e on page 8

1 matches

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
at things wi its ever-changin cocktail o elements. The people are us on page 118

1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
@shunad Oor early for a cocktail(2020)

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 68 - The Fower Jyners o the Apocalypse, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
vost's private ruim whaur his cocktail caibinet is!" on page 26

2 matches

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
Genevieve Chisholm sat wi her cocktail and communed her furst dey's on page 1

2 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
arlin?" he asks her. "Fancy a cocktail withoot the tail?" on page 80

1 matches

Clark, Sara Scot Free -The Psychic Cost O Uisin Scots, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
cots wioot feelin the complex cocktail o emotions rangin frae fear t
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
suckin through strahs in cocktail bars on page 4

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
faimly had been sprayed wi a cocktail o insecticides an antibiotics
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
elin passes through me, a mad cocktail ae adrenaline n Tonic wine. " on page 41
somehow, n she's that bitter cocktail ae angry n disappointed. Even on page 55

2 matches

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
wi a cocktail in wan haund on page 39

1 matches

Logan, Kirsty Lego, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
s. I loved it there. They pit cocktail sticks in their burgers tae h
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
o Steve, that’s a rum based cocktail. My yogic name is Guru Dhadak
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Or Cherry red cocktail sourz on page 20

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
d mornin, mid-life, you are a cocktail o oor time here, there, every on page 24

1 matches

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