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The word 'indian'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
indianOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.93319
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 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 35.5 8 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 37.2 6 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 48.4 4 3
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 indian in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
prickly rose, wild bergamot, Indian blanket, on page 19

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ed; book an appintmint wi wir Indian heid massage maanie; hae regl on page 12

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
hey're ower the watters o the Indian Ocean, far, far oot in its mi
am back, riggit oot as a Reid Indian, feathers an aa, tae sue the
2 matches

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
Billie: (Spickin wi an Indian accent) Good evening, Rover - on page 40

2 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
If ye like Indian, I'll mak a curry on page 114

1 matches

@Franwella tweeted
@aimeeannenaylor I'm ha'in an indian nyum nyum!(2011)
rin's in Elgin n bringin back indian woop woop x(2011)
ikka Chasni we pilau rice fae Indian....oh yum(2011)
tae de much for ma. Canna get indian oot ma heid!(2011)
ae chinese cud be a grand wee indian n it'd go doon a treat(2011)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
faither own and run a popular Indian on page 35

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Gowden Gate Til Samarkan, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, poetry
Hae we no Indian cairpets derk as wine, on page 31

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
got wan time before oot that Indian place doon by the toon hall. on page 30
heard ae (apparently it's an Indian version a Romeo an Juliet); L on page 112

2 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 82 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Prestwick, prose
lent wi his braw owersettin o Indian makar an novelist, Rabindrana on page 7

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
sayed the younger man, the Indian yin. They waitit while he arr
you go home, you’re to wear Indian dress. I’ve no idea why,”
the doorbell. It wis a young Indian man. The Pandit had obviously
han the licht wis dim, weirin Indian claes, sin that wis foo Beatr
she’d had tae wirk at bein Indian.
6 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
'Tell Chairlie aboot that Indian prince,' said Grannie Jockina on page 13
Mr Wonka and the Indian Prince on page 15

2 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
An drouthy Indian lands on page 55

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 73 - Waashin Day Weirriors, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
ilots wir wir daein thair rid Indian bit noo. Sleekin alang the gr on page 66

1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
tae dae me twice. Ah dae love Indian food. ??(2020)

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
hen. It's essentially a sweet Indian curry. Ah cannae have it tae (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ur ae gey wheen ‘ear, i the Indian sub-continent. Tae stert wi,
1 matches

The Westender Ins and oots, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
ov got a Turkish takeaway, an Indian restaurant, an' oov hed Chine
se? Thone was afore oo hed an Indian bit even tho' the Red Rose wa
2 matches

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
! a wonder whether ye huv try Indian single malt whisky? Amrut, Ra(2020)

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