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The word 'scaffies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
scaffiesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.865
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 scaffies in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
r get yer bucket back fae the scaffies an fin ye keek in aire is bin(2019)
has had tae ging oot tae the scaffies? https://t.co/g7w7kHzA2l(2020)

Mid Northern B

Robson, Euan Peelie wally, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
and dump it a in the bin. The scaffies were due the morn so she wid
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General Northern

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
Still havena' seen the scaffies gan aboot Aberdeen. But the b (2022) twitter link

General Central

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
he bevvy the night ya numpty! Scaffies were late the day here. (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Tindal, Betty Lallans 73 - The Scaffie Man’s Tale, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
en it up afore Ah get tae the Scaffies' Depot, an mibbe make masel a on page 113

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