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The word 'flippers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
flippersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.6154
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 46 10 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 1
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 flippers in Corpus

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Shetland

Nicholson, Hannah Eemis Stane 1 - Dance o da Selkies, (Eemis Stane 2022) Shetland, poetry
Swimmin aa'wye wi da flippers on page 14

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
n ae them had a pair ae green flippers an she wis pittin them on whe on page 13
intet doon at the wans wi the flippers an the snorkles that wur in d on page 15
kin aboot buyin ma ain pair a flippers wi the money but CharJene jis on page 43

7 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2020) Central, prose
n ae them had a pair ae green flippers an she wis pittin them on whe
thought if he wore a pair ae flippers in the baths then he widnae h
intet doon at the wans wi the flippers an the snorkles that wur in d
3 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
ntin oaf the subjects oan his flippers,-"Mystery, ancient an modern, on page 95

1 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 90 - Sally, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
'It's giein iz yin o its flippers tae haud,' said wee Mary kitt on page 63

3 matches

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