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The word 'cooking'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cookingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.51513
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 3
MNB - Mid Northern B 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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 cooking in Corpus

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Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
ae keepin the hoose clean and cooking and washing. So against me wi on page 21

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
, "I remember what your mam's cooking was like, all these years ago on page 21

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ine ~ Kemnay area enjoys DIY, cooking, horse riding, walking and al on page 52

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
fae her contemplation of the cooking range tae the here and now. T
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ancake day including the mix. cooking ile, maple syrup an lemon jui(2018)
ong smell before jointing for cooking. Can’t seem to find any refe(2018)

Mid Northern B

Bowie, Tyler Stookie, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
. Fowk runnin roon aifter me, cooking ma food, daen ma messages, ke
1 matches

Aberdeen

Abel, Charlie The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands) - Doric Corner, (DC Thomson 2024) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
tae coorie aneth eh blunkits. Cooking wis deen on a wire grate ower on page 25

1 matches

General Northern

@sovereigndaisy tweeted
@Bob55492332 Cooking mine a wik Fridae fur my birt(2019)

@cligeey tweeted
@LeftPeggers Think it wis on cooking thru the Corona, on FB(2020)

@Franwella tweeted
already hae tae pay £25 for cooking n £7 for technical n they're(2011)
explains why i'm cooking boiled rice for tea......much(2011)

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
siblings when the women were cooking the dinner ????(2020)

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
olunteering, and now lunch is cooking in ma oven!?.(2015)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
@ashleystorrie See the 2am cooking household thing... I kinda th(2020)