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The word 'cooked'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cookedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.62822
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.7 5 4
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 14.6 11 7
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
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 cooked in Corpus

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Orkney

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Wae fancy cooked breakfasts and lemon drizzle on page 73

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Haggis tasting notes, and whisky pairings, (Brisk Northerly 2019) Orkney, blog
ed among the oatmeal mean the cooked product has a bonny speckled
1 matches

Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
ly @Branson1873 Fan my mither cooked a capon at Christmas, shed st(2019)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
ye'll hae ti aet a breakfast cooked bi Chairlie Ogilvie. If ye su on page 44

1 matches

General Northern

Mitchell, Rhona Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Wye it Wis, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
nywye in fact. She cleaned an cooked. She supposed at wis foo it w on page 14

1 matches

@sovereigndaisy tweeted
ishJill @mickeyblue1 Aye. All cooked fae scratch. Tastes better th(2019)

@Franwella tweeted
@LouiseNicol1 have jist cooked toast! Msg'd you on FB bit yo(2011)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
veg! I said u bought a ready cooked chicken, could u nae buy a po(2016)
g ma chicken leg now the wife cooked fer me! Fa's dug is this? #du(2017)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ly start tae hink it's a meal cooked by a Michelin star chef. Anyt on page 124
ire cocks than ma faither hus cooked curries." on page 196

2 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
like that or they Widnae hae cooked in the middle. No like your c on page 62

1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
sful thing I’ve done since I cooked my last thing in June ???????(2020)

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@simonhibs1875 aye n ma cooked breakfasts off ma fav scran v (2021) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
e banana fritters wurnae even cooked right. Charlene didnae touch on page 148

1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Tasteless, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Saltcoats, prose
arrots an' sprouts wis aw pre-cooked an' wis staunin' by ready tae
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
a plate o scran that she had cooked wi her helper and kizzen. Thi on page 38
'Yon's a braw cake ye've cooked,' said her faither ower his b on page 71

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
Wis cooked up auld lang syne and then on page 5
(I hope she cooked it weel eneuch. on page 24
If ye'd cooked up some tasty meal, on page 29

3 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
uin, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny cooked the puttanesca sauce accordin on page 44

2 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
ig cauldron mibbe an efter ye cooked thim the sojers could eat thi on page 45

1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
ikely... fish disnae dae weel cooked like that...(2020)

@raiphsays tweeted
uvver wae sauce an simmer tae cooked! :D(2020)

@rattlecans tweeted
elderly Mawe his tae hiv nae cooked tea, nae cuppa when her cooke (2022) twitter link

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
ces fer ivry ill. Granny also cooked with a griddle ower an open f on page 46

1 matches

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