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The word 'poppies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
poppiesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4118
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 47.4 4 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 2
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 poppies in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
My poppies just popped oot this mornin. (2020)

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
The wursitty #poppies aat Peterheid Baptist Church (2018)

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Flooery achievement for the Scots Government, (The National 2019) Doric, newspaper
seen perennial flooers sic as poppies an marguerite daisies scaiter
will be chuffed wi the extra poppies on offer tae them in particul
offer tae them in particular. Poppies are ane o bees’ favourites
ae be plantit, as weel as the poppies an dasies aaready thrivin. In
4 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Ozsome, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
s surroondit wi fields o reid poppies. The Wicked Witch o the East
1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Whan poppies tume their petal tears on page 2

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
In the forenicht, he haes poppies.
1 matches

The Westender Mairchers did oor toon prood, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
t in threi shops afore a fund poppies for sale.
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
passin poppies oot like sacrament. on page 69

1 matches

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