A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'burger'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
burgerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.3149
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of burger in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
he saa the twins makkin fir a burger bar. on page 41

2 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
d Ellon fur a richt guid bean burger, affa fine an tasty chips an (2019)
a MacD queue wytin fur a beef burger an milk shak!(2020)

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
s, fits the chances of a free burger and pint for me?(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
offering "Grab a meal deal". Burger King up the road at the beach(2018)
nental wee the new Fittie Mac Burger & Thai Fish Cakes! Fit tae de(2018)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ys fund a cooncil worker at a burger van or sleepin in a layby - (2020) twitter link
snacking oan a crunchy quorn burger and play golf - if there is (2021) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ent an bought hersel a cheese burger an a big carton on page 137
heese that said, Gone out for burger and cinema at Braehead with K on page 169

2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
id want tae see rinnin even a burger van? The Brexit referendum co on page 11

1 matches

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
leary tonite a won a Handmade Burger voucher at Charity Cheilidh! (2014)

South West (Galloway)

McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 3, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
he wid've gote pulverised tae burger-meat bi yon angel.
1 matches

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