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The word 'pizza'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pizzaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.83623
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21 2 2
DOR - General Northern 35.5 8 4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 14.6 6 4
WCE - West Central 31.1 7 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 15.4 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of pizza in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
amongst pizza an chips, on page 9

1 matches

Leonard, Ingrid Northwords Now 43 - Ingrid Leonard, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Orkney, poetry
ghts in May wi family steyan, pizza on page 18

1 matches

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Chocolate pizza fitever neist! Fit’s the Dor(2018)
rder yer neist fash an chips, pizza, kebab, curry or noodles fur (2020)

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
nt flat ~ half-eaten Domino's pizza boxes sprayed wi cheap deodor on page 35

1 matches

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
Or pizza wi' toppin's then deep fried
1 matches

General Northern

Leslie, Deborah Tales Fae The Doric Side - Mabel, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
muckle pepperoni pizza wi stuffed crust fir me. He's on page 95

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
ye wur jist waitin fir a pizza slice tae fa. on page 161

4 matches

@cligeey tweeted
on Making sure abidy will get pizza next wik(2020)
at dry slab things. Bit I hid pizza for ma fly the day(2020)

@Franwella tweeted
Kids demanding I cook pizza at this time o night, I mean (2011)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
t wis aw oor a boay workin at Pizza Hut puttin too many slices ae on page 20
roond the room and half empty pizza boaxes and empty crisp wrappe on page 118

3 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
insteid o buyin a cairry-oot pizza, mebbe we shuid gie thaim min
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - Bellin the Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Ormiston, prose
sauce ca’d back wi Irn Bru, pizza suppers wi Dr Pepper, an Inte
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@McBookie ffs - its the pizza man lol (2021) twitter link

West Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 104 - Stephen, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
Don't get me wrang, it's jist pizza, naebodie deid. But Ah'm stew on page 13
r afore ma back shifts in the Pizza Parlour, the day bein nae on page 14
l, huv a guid shift, delwerin pizza." on page 17
He helped me deliver pizza's aa that nicht, sittin in th on page 18

5 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
t an sour pork, cheese an ham pizza or lasagne made wi turkey min on page 87
up gettin a cheese an tomata pizza between us but Charlene would on page 138

2 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
’ the group decided tae hae pizza, bit masel’ an’ a young g
1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
me toast neist tae fowk eatin pizza on page 52

1 matches

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
y the 11", me and Frances hud pizza at Bier Halle, two fur wan. W on page 5
u made a note about going for pizza at the Bier Halle, two for on on page 13

2 matches

General Central

Cairns, Pauline Lallans 83 - Boeuf Bourguignon, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
ltin oot o the windae. We had pizza. Ah've made the recipe Ah gie on page 68

1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
llpwing! ?? ??. Hae a slice o pizza?? an helicopter?? oan me! Hug(2014)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
e wae ma pineapple and cheese pizza(2020)

@rattlecans tweeted
ever got him in his favourite pizza?" (2022) twitter link

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
tick tae prittas an soda. Nae pizza or haggis or ony ither foreig (2014) twitter link