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The word 'cartoons'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cartoonsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4136
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 13.3 3 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 27.6 6 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of cartoons in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
up his snoot. He’d miss his cartoons. He grabbit Geordie’s cage,
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
She's nuthin like ony cartoons on page 88

3 matches

West Central

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
ma widnae let us gang tae see cartoons. Nae proper fillums, she says
e money wis tae be wastit oan cartoons. Ah hink we fair annoyed her
aces an’ she thocht that TV cartoons wis bad enough so she’s no
3 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
ma wis English) he git Giles. Cartoons fer posh fowk. But Oor Wullie
k o’ politics we think o’ cartoons. Bit no Oor Wullie. Ye’d ni
lace. Mebbe there is mair tae cartoons than ah thocht.
3 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
~ '18th century anti-Scottish cartoons' is a guid place tae stairt. on page 115

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
smokin a joint an watchin the cartoons), ma Ma sorts us oot wae some
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
n Seturdays tae sit and watch cartoons or whitever. But that's no fo on page 16

1 matches

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