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The word 'napkin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
napkinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.797
ORK - Orkney
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
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
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) 98.5 3 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of napkin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
l," droned Gerald, tuckin his napkin inte's sark collar an lookin on page 28

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
We fand this #Doric napkin in oor drawer whilst haen a c(2018)

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ped his lips nervously wi his napkin. 'Let's aw gang thegether tae on page 39

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
hae been drawn up on an auld napkin at some London dinner pairty on page 54

1 matches

Glasgow

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
and the personality ae a wet napkin. It's hard tae hink ae a mair on page 15

1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
is foreheid wi a reid-checkit napkin. on page 50

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
She needed a napkin an she needed watter, but she on page 33
er an left thumb an place the napkin unnerneath. on page 34

3 matches

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