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The word 'carpets'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
carpetsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.587
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 carpets in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ant at dis time o year for da carpets o flooers ???????. As weel as(2019)

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ose pulled oan is hauf-chaaed carpets an wannert ootside wi 1s denn on page 63

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
eet spull ower the heids o ma carpets. on page 44

1 matches

Aberdeen

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
e and comfy noo There is even carpets in the loo on page 29

1 matches

General Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
me fae the waa. Nae carpets, just steen flags on page 43

1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
Fly tipping aul carpets Tarves Balgove Road nae need (2020)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Thochts o Speakin Scots, (peffers50.freeserve 2001) Central, prose
easy whan ye'r gaun ower the carpets an brats wi the stoor-sooker,
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
stinkin ae pish, faded tartan carpets, dark wooden furnishings n co on page 38

1 matches

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