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The word 'powder'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
powderOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4118
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 21.7 4 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 powder in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ma Adam's apple intae a fine powder. Aldo surfaced fae the shoap. on page 199

1 matches

West Central

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
t a’ soon’s like new soap powder tae me. Ah just wanna be able
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Appin Murderer, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ece wi’ a cherge o’ black powder an’ a smooth ba’, row’d
€™ the flint sparked, the pan powder ingited an’ haf’ a second
2 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
nd notes an a few wee bags ae powder. The two lads stoap airm wres on page 10
intae a wee bag ae marchin powder an stuffs it up Paco's nose. on page 31

2 matches

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
a pedlar ay Peruvian marchin powder - sell the right product at
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
hough. As soon as the marchin powder goat involved, we wur doomed
1 matches

General Central

@raiphsays tweeted
:D a fergot a wee bit chilli powder tae!(2020)

@changed_days tweeted
ay it was his mums new washin powder! For 7 year! (2021) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
h fitmen, Ahlice noticed, hed powder'd hair that curled aw ower th on page 54

1 matches

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