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The word 'crackers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
crackersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.51510
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
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 26.6 6 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 1
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 crackers in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
They sit and pull their crackers and pit on their silly hats. on page 81

1 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
bae a horrid bonny pair o nut crackers in the window, Mrs Cook o the on page 87

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
rtion o egg-fried rice, praan crackers an a suppie chips." on page 72

1 matches

General Northern

TheChielMeister Oatcakes 'n' Cheese, (youtube.com 2009) Doric, poetry
gie me shite aboot the creamy crackers
1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@RyanMusselburgh yes sum crackers in there defo and its great t (2021) twitter link

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ominie ah'd invent some richt crackers fur the weans o fond parents. on page 2
e garage! Ah've got a few wee crackers ah'm gonnae sell tae the eeji on page 54

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
e the jokes fur the Christmas crackers. on page 41
apart fae two prawn crackers an a bit ae pineapple but her on page 149
ma ma wis runnin aboot buyin crackers an stupit stockin fillers tha on page 169

4 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
wis involved in a few story- crackers! Yin time he wis oot Hillwalk
1 matches

General Central

Lang, Charles nobody remembers the birdman - Good Friday, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, poetry
cream crackers withoot a drink a watter? How on page 88

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Evie OOR WULLIE’S SEASON’S GREET, (Largs Writers Group 2015) Central - Largs, prose
tae they Broons’s Christmas Crackers play alang wi PC Murdoch, anâ
C Murdoch, an’ it did sound crackers, but it wiz jist ma luck that
2 matches

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