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The word 'humbugs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
humbugsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.552
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 20.5 4 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 humbugs in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ky tatties, Ibrox an Parkheid humbugs an granny sookers? Mind, it m
1 matches

Glasgow

Atkins, Elise Billy Barr ’n’ Jonny Jimison’s Day Oot!, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Central, prose
ize ae yer hawn, big jawrs ae humbugs an’ soor plooms, pokes ae s
“Cin Ah huv some humbugs as weel?” Jonny asked.
r a pokey hat an’ a poke ae humbugs.”
Jonny pulled oot the poke ae humbugs, his coupon trippin’ him.
4 matches

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