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The word 'cone'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
coneOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.22418
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 4
MNB - Mid Northern B 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 11.8 9 4
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of cone in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
a cone, but no da hale wye; an kinda on page 31

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
plain o da sea da cone o da Wart is a shimmerin Kili on page 42

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
ffin stik enna veer cus a cis cone cyedeea. Oneywuly, we weis ji on page 10

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
a treat's a fish supper, or a cone wi a flake an a waak ben the on page 84

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
cone wi jist his tail hingin oot l
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
has Rab nae gotten a traffic cone on his heid!! https://t.co/qk(2018)

Mid Northern B

Ritchie, John Fishin in the Findhorn, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
etup ma rod and put a cascade cone tube cos the river wis high a
1 matches

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
@tommiehoban05 who left that cone oot? #standfree #aberdeenfc h(2020)

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
red the wey ti a great muckle cone in tke distance, the heichest on page 77

1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
nae doot. Rollin a nice tight cone ae a spliff and identifyin a
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
she bought her a ninety nine cone an ah got nothin. on page 80

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
ba’s which spread oot in a cone, takin’ mony victims each s
1 matches

Glasgow

Kennedy, Julie Ma Mum and William Wordsworth, (Howkin Words Press 2024 ISBN: 978-1399988971) Central, prose
Simmit says: "Can we git a cone?' on page 19

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
And life is yin oyster, a cone in yer dream, on page 157

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
ng-sangy. Sae he lifted a fir-cone and scansed it, and said tae on page 86
o a sudden, there wis his fir-cone snoovin awa tae. on page 87

5 matches

Harrison, Jean Lallans 59 - BARRY SCHUIL 1928 - 1934, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
r ice cream, ye got that in a cone, it was ca'ad a poky hat. J w on page 120

1 matches

@alistairdunn tweeted
cone been on top of a pothole in m(2014)

@IshbelMcF tweeted
e sound the English used in ‘cone’. The Scots hear English say(2018)

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
ter, no just Belfast, caain a cone a poke is no because o thon - (2014) twitter link