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The word 'dinner-time'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dinner-timeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.653
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 dinner-time in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Hid shurly must be dinner-time - wir been at this fur oors on page 64

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
There wis still an oor afore dinner-time. They powkit aboot amang the
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ond thegether at playtime and dinner-time. Lavender wis toty fur her ag on page 95
It wis dinner-time. The day it wis sausages and on page 133

2 matches

Glasgow

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
nd they don’t hing aboot at dinner-time, just eat their chits and get
1 matches

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