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The word 'lettuce'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lettuceOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.71913
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 3
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 lettuce in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Then I cheust hae lettuce - ah'm 'green'. on page 18

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
diet," said Susie, sweelin a lettuce aneth the caal tap. "Fin you on page 71

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
ubbit chappit up a fine crisp lettuce an a daud o kail.
oon near swappit Teenie fur a lettuce, bit its leaves war dweeble a
2 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
e enjoying his morn braakfist lettuce. Fit’s the #Doric fur tortoi(2020)

@FaeFoggie tweeted
lub sarnie stans for "chicken lettuce under bacon" is at for real?(2020)

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Sixty sabies, wi' lettuce tae on page 167

1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
days auld and a scabby bit of lettuce(2016)

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
Mince and lettuce? Really? Nae exactly mince an (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 82 - Ae Legend o Sanct Benedict, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
seein this crisp sappy lettuce. on page 52

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
an gie him lettuce, green an sappy,
An leave me in ma lettuce patch.
2 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
e ma salad. Which consists ae lettuce, tomataes and the rest ae the
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
see a live snail on a daud o lettuce,' Grannie said, 'I gorble it on page 7

1 matches

Waddell, John Lallans 58 - fower poems bi John Waddell, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
An beans an lettuce for their food. on page 62

3 matches

@WhenDidADidny tweeted
affordable for all. Absolute lettuce shagger (2018) twitter link

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