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The word 'spuds'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spudsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.798
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 85.3 3 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of spuds in Corpus

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West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
st barbecues: she'd dae baked spuds an baked apples an bananas wi on page 169

1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
da uises it whan he peels the spuds. on page 131

1 matches

General Central

Morning, Carey Neeps and Tatties, (self-published 2020) Central, weans
o thae cantie spuds and the couthie swedes. on page 13

1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
@lilianedwards The only Spuds I am thinkin is the ane frae (2020)

South West (Galloway)

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
raws o spuds on page 40

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

@Angelinekking tweeted
It's in this poem: "hear the spuds dunner against the steel." ht(2020)

General Ulster

Stewart, Kenny The Proota Field, (Facebook 2021) Ulster, poetry
e worked all day there at the spuds, frae the mornin tae the nigh
Ye know them spuds were never damaged as they sp
2 matches

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
@CeeferCrafts Mon the spuds!!! https://t.co/6XzFvhpv1E (2021) twitter link

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