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The word 'oatcakes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
oatcakesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.9227
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 70.9 16 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 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 oatcakes in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
ett oatcakes an cheese. She’d jist new g
tchie tae open a new packet o oatcakes
bannocks, an oatcakes new aff the griddle. Suzy lic
3 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@watterloony Fit oatcakes did ye hae?(2020)

General Northern

TheChielMeister Oatcakes 'n' Cheese, (youtube.com 2009) Doric, poetry
Oatcakes 'n' cheese
Oatcakes 'n' cheese
Oatcakes 'n' cheese
Oatcakes 'n' cheese
Oatcakes 'n' cheese
14 matches

@cligeey tweeted
oached eggs jersey tatties - oatcakes cream cheese and sweet chilli(2020)

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
a Buttery. Ony wye, breid is oatcakes, loaf is breid. Ken fit ah me(2019)

General Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth Makkin a muckle o a mickle, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
mak a farl o tattie scones or oatcakes on the girdle. Clootie dumpli
1 matches

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
e nae matter what, alang with oatcakes and drams! It might help me t(2020)