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The word 'scapa'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
scapaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3107
ORK - Orkney 49.7 5 3
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
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
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)
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 scapa in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
And tankers wait in Scapa Flow tae ship awey crude oil. on page 37
the Royal Oak lies, grey, on Scapa Flow. on page 48
Fished mackerel doon at Scapa pier, on page 71

3 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Scapa on the Skerries on page 136

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Haggis tasting notes, and whisky pairings, (Brisk Northerly 2019) Orkney, blog
ve wae clapshot, and pair wae Scapa the Orcadian single malt –
1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
Scapa Flow is skyippin daday. We tu on page 27

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
killed on the approaches tae Scapa Flow fin H.M. Drifter Ben Str
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
(though he probably preferred Scapa, but at £38 ??)... An fondly (2020) twitter link

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
aird kythed at Rossyth, while Scapa Flow becam the anchorage for on page 110

1 matches

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