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The word 'snitch'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
snitchOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.894
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 31 7 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
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 snitch in Corpus

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General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
I've got i' caul an I wipe ma snitch on page 67

1 matches

@beast_afc tweeted
er cheels in da sun . #grass #snitch https://t.co/RNmzdp0syt https(2020)
yrbn @scottda95388967 A grass snitch snake gan tae inither loons u(2020)
boycott the @scottda95388967 snitch. Dinae use this cowboy. Call (2020)
7 I defo wouldnae be wantin a snitch or grass in ma hoose. #grass(2020)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
led it a day and arrested the snitch for wasting there time lol (2020) twitter link

General Central

@LairnScots tweeted
dditch' is Bizzumbaw, 'Golden Snitch' is Gowden Sneckie and 'Diago (2018) twitter link