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The word 'curry'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
curryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.73121
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 39.9 9 6
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 49.9 4 1
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 curry in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Dodie's Phenomenal Pheesic, (Shetland For Wirds 2008) Shetland, weans
A TINNY O CURRY POODER
1 matches

@tattooedselkie tweeted
hat afore, but I fin leftower curry is the mair satisfying een, e(2021)

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ubs o het an spicy soup, beef curry, sweet an soor chucken, a por on page 72

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
pices an veg fur a richt fine curry. It wis hotterin awa ower the
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
my! Foo tasty is the special curry aat A Taste of Hong Kong in t(2019)
fash an chips, pizza, kebab, curry or noodles fur hame delivery (2020)

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
If ye like Indian, I'll mak a curry on page 114
igby picks up i'rice frae her curry 'at had faan on i'fleer on page 115

2 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
t fowk haid askit fur chicken curry an rice, an sein
1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
ap o' Kashmir.... Hid a nesty curry there afore skittered ma yell(2016)

@Franwella tweeted
Nae bad curry at a(2012)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
hing ma stumuch can handle is curry! Fish cakes are good fer ma t(2018)
s fae last night's Fittie Bar curry night, then hid tae wak up ta(2018)

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
heHornyHaggis Jist hin chukin curry made wi Mayflooer curry saas (2020)

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
some ideas. Toss up between a curry, or chicken pie, chips and pe(2020)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
e times ma ma made yi chicken curry fur yir dinner. on page 30
Home Ec makin this mad korma curry thing when Tommy Campbell sho on page 125

2 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
John's had a curry,
- RED HOT CURRY BLUES!
2 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
people' - there's a guy in a curry sauce stained Celtic tap, an on page 8

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
"Yer curry-flavoured Irn-Bru on page 89

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
A TIN O CURRY POODER on page 25

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
like a curry too - a stale wan. He cannae on page 20

1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
tired tae eat it. Second day curry is aye braw, tho. ??(2020)

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
's essentially a sweet Indian curry. Ah cannae have it tae spicy (2022) twitter link
e touch the sides, that's the curry I made ya bampot! (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

The Westender Ins and oots, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
ose was a Chinese, they did a curry that was that popular they ev
at popular they even selt the curry pooder in wee bags in the loc
ebuds were that developed for curry, judging be the dried stuff o
aisins in eet. Raisins in yer curry? Yuk!
4 matches

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