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The word 'snake'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
snakeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus247726
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 52.3 9 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 26.2 8 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central 324.6 7 1
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 48.9 9 3
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 18.7 14 9
SEA - South East (Borders) 112.3 9 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 282.5 9 1
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) 36.3 2 1

Occurrences of snake in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
ö wantit him ta geng, laek a snake. on page 53
"But A'm no a snake, A'm tellin dee!" said Alice. on page 54

9 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Doric Gruffalo's Bairn, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1785300691) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
ae a Moose!" "Nae me, quo the snake. on page 9

1 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
n fan he speirs for loaf or a snake fan he speirs for a fishie? G on page 15
o ye att wad gie his loonie a snake fan he speirs for a fishie, o on page 99

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
pit in, wi feelin. 'I houp a snake bit her.'
ben tae Sector 8 ahin a lang snake o Japanee towrists. They shau
k o peintit wid fur their ain snake daunce, sae the scaley Septil
y British neebors hyne aff up snake infestit roads far even eleph
red as caused bi wild beasts, snake bites, droonin, suicide or mu
5 matches

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
24 Dar Oma snake unwindin frae a lichtnin-bloo on page 3

1 matches

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North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
t had the body a dug and nine snake heids growin oot o its shoode on page 11
swampy grund straight at the snake-heidit monster and chapped af on page 12
eck, burnin it tae stap a new snake heid fae growin back. Aw efte on page 13
ae guid. He's as sleekit as a snake in a bucket o cookin ile. Ah on page 35
the boa constrictor tail. The snake wrapped itsel roon him sae ti on page 56

7 matches

(South) East Central

Morton, Elaine Lallans 59 - In Dispraise o Eden, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Forby the spreckelt glaizie snake on page 91

1 matches

Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
there shakin’ like a rattle snake, he replied wi a squeak "Aye,
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
inctive bein able tae spoat a snake efter spendin time foldin lau
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
is it? Aw it's mingin! It's a snake! It's a babbie crocodile! It' on page 155

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
s an eagle's or an Epidaurian snake's. on page 117

1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
Inside his heid, an uncurled snake hissed. on page 112

1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Or diagnose mumps in a snake like a vet on page 99

1 matches

Smith, Elaine C. The Glasgow Gruffalo, (Itchy Coo 2017 ISBN: 978-1785300592) Central - Glasgow, weans
Anen a snake clocked the moose, an the moo on page 11
An Sammy Snake shot the craw. on page 13
"Och, it's jist Sammy Snake. Haw, Sammy! Hullo!" on page 18

5 matches

Smith, Elaine C. The Glasgow Gruffalo's Wean, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303425) Central - Glasgow, weans
Bad Moose?" "No me," sez the snake. on page 12

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
know whit ah mean? A sleekit, snake oil salesman is Archie, ay th
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
tae let it go, like a fuckin snake that’s just pounced oan a r
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
aboot ony airt like a souple snake. She had juist managed tae cu on page 44

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
'A snake" whuspered Poloko. on page 60

2 matches

Crichton, Tam Lallans 84 - Ower the Faem Pairt Twa: Doon the Watter, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
like a waw, his swuird like a snake that struck wi deidly precisi on page 59

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 59 - In Dispraise o Eden, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Forby the spreckelt glaizie snake on page 91

1 matches

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
nor Eve, jist the bluidie snake? Ah crossit masel and he wis on page 14

2 matches

Robertson, Sine Lallans 59 - Newsins fae SLRC, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
wifie haein an affa adee wi a snake an a puckle fish. The book ga on page 87

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
innymalinky smile, the kind a snake micht gie ye jist afore it bi on page 9
a against pittin a lang green snake doon the back o her gounie bu on page 12

3 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
s able tae fall asleep before Snake wis a Ong, then there's the t on page 52

1 matches

Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
houd shed the wey A jaw lik a snake sheds skin. Muive tae a big c on page 4

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Forby the spreckelt glaizie snake on page 53

1 matches

Law, John Lallans 56 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
muckle waa. A cruikit horn. A snake. A flag hung oot. The Scots l on page 4

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
asily in ony direction, lik a snake. on page 51
ck as that! Nut, nut! Ee're a snake, an there's nae yis denyin ee on page 52

9 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
direction, lik a snake. Shae had jest finisht curvin on page 52
k lik that! Naw, naw! Yae'r a snake, an thur's nae point in denyi on page 53

9 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
er a fish, wull he gie hïm a snake? An sae ïf sïnfu fowk laik on page 8
xes a fïsh wud he gie hïm a snake? Or ïf he axes an egg wud he on page 89

2 matches

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