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The word 'rhubarb'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
rhubarbOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1106
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 22.9 7 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 rhubarb in Corpus

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Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Pan loaf, cookies, homemade rhubarb jam an on page 42

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Grottie-Buckie and Tirli-Wirli, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997352) Shetland, weans
yerd-daeks fur a bit o juicy rhubarb. on page 18

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Pit crowdie an rhubarb jam apö dy scone. Hill berri on page 70

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
ucklie for the "Dukes" An the rhubarb in the orra neuks I widna lik on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
made aa wir maet fae scratch: rhubarb an aipple crummlie, fish pie, on page 87
piz, soor goosers, bonny reed rhubarb, peeny roses, tattie chappers on page 88

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
rang frae the chunty ower the rhubarb, Meg,' Jow Dow cried out. 'It
s ower the neuk far the young rhubarb lay curled up aneth the yird.
rdens fur bringin on roses or rhubarb.
3 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
! Chicken supreme followed by rhubarb crumble and custard for lunch(2017)

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