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The word 'toastie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
toastieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.585
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 17.7 4 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 toastie in Corpus

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General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
1am last night and nae even a toastie in between. Never again!!!(2016)
anna even stretch as far as a toastie at the bar or a wee half a ni(2017)
! The menu 40 years ago wis a toastie, bug o‘ crisps & KP nuts! #t(2018)
eez, yon barmaid manager come toastie chef hiz really pushed the bo(2019)

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
For something fried or a toastie bun on page 97

1 matches

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
e o the snowsuit up, tight an toastie.
1 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
e's eatin' a cheese an' onion toastie sidie-ways, plannin' a Forfar on page

1 matches

@FaetheRye tweeted
sed tae get a smashing haggis toastie in a cafe in Killie. (2022) twitter link

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