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The word 'ladle'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ladleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3107
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of ladle in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
fur they'd a richt boddomless ladle fur affection. They telt onyb
1 matches

(South) East Central

Gilmour, Rosie Haimster Pairty, (Scots Hoose 2016) Central, weans
scooped her up wi the kitchen ladle
1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
rms aroond me and say's 'It's ladle!' before proceedin tae piss h on page 36

3 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
Molipi, wid batter a pan wi a ladle. This wis the signal for aw t on page 38

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
puttanesca sauce and a muckle ladle tae serve it wi. The theatre on page 51

2 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
wee aff the fire an began tae ladle the thick, het parritch intae on page 17

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Than an nou — poverty, makkin dae, an leukin oot for ilk ither, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
wis dishit oot wi a jug an a ladle. Ma mither wad traipse up the
1 matches

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