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The word 'cutlery'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cutleryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.51511
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 25.1 5 2
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
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 cutlery in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
, pans, jars, bowels, beddin, cutlery, curting an even the aul chin on page 94

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
lace table cloot wi polished cutlery that reflected the lowe o the
showed her foo tae clean the cutlery, braisse the ornaments, an po
2 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
joog o coffee and opened the cutlery drawer in the table and teen
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
s wi proper plates & aathin', cutlery, the lot. Hid ti serve it up (2020)

General Northern

Skinner, Alison C. Tales Fae The Doric Side - Leaves, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
e an auld un-yeesed canteen o cutlery - a waddin present her granm on page 23

1 matches

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
he bourach o dirty plates and cutlery wis a nightmare. But eventual on page 42

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
Ah put doon the cutlery an plates ay stovies oan the on page 13

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
in, drawers openin an closin, cutlery rattlin. "Hello Shane, feelin on page 3

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
et makin him drap the boax ay cutlery he’s kerrien tae the paveme
pelganger wae the last ay the cutlery an kitchen utensils, makin oo
2 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
Ah put doon the cutlery an plates ay stovies oan the
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
e, afore ripin their houses o cutlery, plates, claes an valuables. on page 58

1 matches

General Central

Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
Iona. He slams his cutlery doun wi a clatter. on page 4

1 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
n is tae try tae stop washing cutlery and cookin utensils and pitti(2020)

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