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The word 'traps'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
trapsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.91915
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 4
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
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 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 49.9 4 2
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of traps in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
at starts wi an M, laek moose-traps, an da mön, an memory, an mo on page 76

1 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ur wuppin da skroos, an moose traps, everything you cood mention. on page 15

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
tank traps, watch-too'ers, bunkers; da o on page 27

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Hiprah for non-lethal moose traps! I feel lik I'm starrin in my(2016)

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
at begins wi an M, leck moose-traps, an e moon, an memory, an muc on page 72

1 matches

General Northern

Storrie Lewis, Jean Lallans 71 - Snuffy, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Doric, prose
n awa tae Dad, his wee mowdie traps hingin owre the haunlebars o
catchin them in yon funny wee traps, he keepit a baggie o strychn
2 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
al Every time they open their traps they get it rang. Surely by n (2020) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
@Ali_Leith Toonser traps for teuchters that's fit they(2020)

(South) East Central

Morton, Elaine Lallans 61 - Twa poems, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Lothian, poetry
Ti spin for heavy flee-traps? Aye he caas on page 60

1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
areas huv replaced the death traps they tried tae pass oaff as a
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
airts wae an M, likesay moose-traps, or the moon, or memory, or m on page 74

1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Tae spin for heavy flee-traps? Aye he caas on page 45

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
sterts wi an M, sic as moose-traps, an th muin, an mindin hings, on page 74

1 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ir ae expert it settin mowdie traps.” Geordie askit the
die is hei checkit his mowdie traps.
intil yin o his traps an kum the neist morning; wha
3 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
at stairts wi an M, lik moose-traps, an the moon, an memory, an m on page 75

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
tchin. Leonard laid a wheen o traps. I hope ye dinnae mine. Danie on page 56

1 matches

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