A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'nappies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
nappiesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.898
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
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 nappies in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
lec Watt's brat wi its shitey nappies eddir. Ah'm gyaain sooth tae on page 23
a night I met her wi a haep a nappies an baby stuff atil her trolle on page 43

2 matches

General Northern

Leslie, Deborah Tales Fae The Doric Side - Mabel, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
came in humphin a big pack o nappies. on page 92

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ge they need tae start wearin nappies again. on page 94

1 matches

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
Hippins - nappies. https://t.co/hAosaz54ny(2020)

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
That aw wore nappies wanst on page 51

1 matches

General Central

@IshbelMcF tweeted
Scots poem an a box o claes, nappies an the like. Braw Scotland! h(2017)

@billykayscot tweeted
e Hippens is anither wird for nappies.(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
ouglas4Moray Do ye no hae ony nappies tae chynge Dougie?(2020)