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The word 'curries'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
curriesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.277
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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 curries in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
is efter - she wis cookan me curries and chips. on page 31

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
ung't intae their het stinkin curries on page 15

1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
bin makkin stovies, stews and curries for him. Wint up ti the shopp(2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ks than ma faither hus cooked curries." on page 196

1 matches

General Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth Makkin a muckle o a mickle, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ulary. Pastas, pizzas, salsa, curries an the like ar nou a muckle p
1 matches

@SusiBriggs1 tweeted
e been faster nipping oot tae Curries for a new laptop ??????(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
capnbobfrapples Cin ye no get curries whaur ye ur? Possibly a busin(2020)

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