A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'pumpkin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pumpkinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.966
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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 pumpkin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Cormack, Liam Hallaeen, (The Gaudie 2019) Doric - Banff, poetry
Or Guisers an a pucklie pumpkin seeds?
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Fit’s the Doric fur pumpkin? https://t.co/J1fJKyvnvh(2018)

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Fit did ye dee afore ye hid a pumpkin? on page 140

1 matches

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
w," she cried. "I've no got a pumpkin, no even a neep. There's nae on page 81

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
when ah get back, okay ma wee pumpkin?’ McDade sais tae Donna, an
1 matches

General Central

@DABArbuckle tweeted
r he didnae say "a richt guid PUMPKIN?" Jist wae it bein Hallowe'en(2020)