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The word 'paddle'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
paddleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.9229
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 53.2 12 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 25.1 4 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of paddle in Corpus

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Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Paddle in the burn. on page 111

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
left up shit creek wi' oot a paddle." on page 8

1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
YELLA PADDLE BOATIE on page 118

11 matches

@cligeey tweeted
@alfordbrad Did ye hae a paddle(2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
e wur up shit creek withoot a paddle as ma auld gran wid say. on page 21

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
about up shit creek wae oot a paddle - kin wee nikki n jason pit (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
tudents doon tae Galloway tae paddle the River Nith. Efter makin
rightin’ the boat with the paddle an’ hip flick). A can see y
demonstrated, Speed, Right, Paddle like buggery! Beth lead Mario
3 matches

McKillop, Roger Wee Roge Boobs, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ls.” “Aye?” “Could ye paddle ower tae Jenny an’ tell her
1 matches

Glasgow

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
’s swimmin, only a few folk paddle in the ripples. Ah’m staund
1 matches

General Central

Geddes, Jenny Fling the creepie in January, (McRenegade.Scots 2018) Central, blog
Some fowk paddle aroon’ until they fin’ on
1 matches

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