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The word 'playtime'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
playtimeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.12611
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 33.2 13 3
WCE - West Central 23 5 1
DUN - Dundee
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 playtime in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie Back tae trowie schul, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
wis on da hedder-kin-dunk at playtime. An trows should caa hide-an-
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Wilson, Heidi and Isla Then and noo, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Keith, prose
At playtime she got milk in a bag wi a bl
1 matches

General Northern

The Mannie Fae Unco The Diary o a Feel at the Skweel, (unco.scot 2021) Doric, prose
ine an mony a time I've spent playtime bein shut doon for depth-char
h-charges and only surface at playtime. Maistly that workit fine but
2 matches

(South) East Central

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
mine. He came in ae day efter playtime, and he was greetin. The teac
1 matches

Gilmour, Rosie Ma Schuil, (Scots Hoose 2014) Central, weans
At half past ten it's playtime
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
e school playground at mornin playtime, that’s how it began. Ma au
ah need tae stop cawing it “playtime” when ah go up tae the big
“lunch”, naebody says “playtime” anymair. No unless they wa
Anywiy, it wis playtime — sorry, break — and Decl
baw and a pure love fitba at playtime, ah didnae want either hing t
6 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
he school playgroun at mornin playtime, that’s how it startit. Ma
ah need tae stoap cawin it “playtime” afore ah go up tae the big
r “lunch”, naebdy says “playtime” onymair. No unless they wa
Onywiy, it wis playtime — sorry, break — and Decl
ld happen at ma school, durin playtime nae less.
5 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
At playtime, Miss Honey left her classroo on page 76
hen the class came back efter playtime Matilda on page 84
d daunerin roond thegether at playtime and dinner-time. Lavender wis on page 95
sterted gaun roon the Pis. At playtime on the third day, while Matil on page 96
yelloched. "Yesterday morn at playtime ye snaiked like a serpent int on page 114

5 matches

Glasgow

McCrory, Pat Lallans 56 - Embdy Lost a Jaickit?, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central - Cowcaddens, poetry
When playtime ends an A hear the bell, on page 113

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
uietly in the clessroom durin playtime, restin himsel, while the ith on page 49

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
s the plague,' Barry jokes at playtime. on page 17

1 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
kes in the school playgrun at playtime, we used tae tell thim aboot on page 46

1 matches

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