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The word 'burgers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
burgersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2148
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 9.8 4 2
WCE - West Central 17.8 4 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
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 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of burgers in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
air wis thick wi the smell o burgers, fried chucken, chips and can on page 40

1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
An burgers at need fried, mooo on page 70

2 matches

(South) East Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 63 - The Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2003, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
e’re gonna need more haggis-burgers,’ was the yell from under a
on aboot Scotch pies, haggis-burgers and deep-fried Mars Bars, tha
ts kitchen nor pies or haggis-burgers. Efter aa, she invitit Anne R
3 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
an broth, wi nae chips or burgers exceptin for a Setterday trea
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
nalds meal. But ah don't jike burgers, ah said. Sawright, she said, on page 51
adas, the snackbar had veggie burgers an veggie frankfurters, an qu on page 88
e thought it smelt lik veggie burgers. Ah don't know if that wis me on page 89
wi meltet chocolate, no jist burgers. Her an ma ma wid sit oot in on page 169

4 matches

Glasgow

Logan, Kirsty Lego, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
pit cocktail sticks in their burgers tae haud them thigither cos t
1 matches

General Central

Watt, George T. Lallans 73 - Land o Fallen Empires, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
a fleerymaneerie o bourbon an burgers. on page 76

1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
ld's is no a denner ava! Thon burgers wud gar the Ulster-Scots boke (2016) twitter link