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The word 'garlic'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
garlicOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus41311
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 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
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 3
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 4
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of garlic in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
I get a lot o joy fae growin garlic :-D http://t.co/pJw9LN6rqa(2014)

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
shious fowk An snails deen in garlic - gyaad ye could cowk on page 15

1 matches

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
nge. An, byzeeby, stoap eatin garlic. When ye brathe oan me, mah s on page 40

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
and Dad to give you peace - garlic bread is in the freezer - tr on page 169

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Biryani an Garlic Nan o it, on page 3758

1 matches

@MizLiot tweeted
a stake through her heart and garlic roond her neck tae make sure (2021) twitter link

General Central

Cairns, Pauline Lallans 83 - Boeuf Bourguignon, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
twa-three cloves o garlic, pressit on page 68

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
me olives, capers, anchovies, garlic, chopped parsley, and tomatae on page 40
supermairket, they bocht some garlic, which is a roondish plant wi on page 42
he recipe. Violet roastit the garlic and washed and chopped the an on page 44

3 matches

Steele, Gregor Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
Wi mingin dods o garlic breid. on page 3

1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
sauted, add muckle amounts of garlic, red pepper/tomato stock cube(2020)

General Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
redd up the tin bath, planted garlic, took pics.....only one that (2021) twitter link