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The word 'nap'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
napOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.51814
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 37.4 3 2
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 nap in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
e wife were haean a lunchtime nap on page 56

1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
een and her knittin, wi a wee nap every noo and then.
1 matches

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
nap, so a settlet masel fur yin a
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
t is far I used tae hae a wee nap efter a night on the tiles at(2018)
ts due tae his fondness fer a nap! Well done. Can I get(2018)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
woke up fae ma daily chilloot nap lol aye the poor laddie willn (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
keep you from your afternoon nap.” She leant forrit. “I'll
1 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Ah go fur a nap. Usually that settles me when
1 matches

General Central

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - Andra’s Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
ht, my freins - ye'd tak the nap on page 50

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
yin or fechtin, for takin the nap o freins, faes, anither scuil on page 129

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Bairns ootside, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
auld weather we war happit in nap coats agin the snell winds, b
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
s o insomnia! Time fir a/noon nap? xxx(2014)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
its bawbaws for a protractit nap. juist sayin. abody.(2020)
a long time out then a longer nap.(2020)

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 59 - Five Poems frae the Chinese o Po Chu-I, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
Eflir denner – ae short nap.
1 matches

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
Eftir denner – ae short nap:
1 matches

@Woodwinecoolers tweeted
the same Norman. Mage the odd nap through the dark wee hours ?? (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
blastit aff a musket shot hap-nap, on page 51

1 matches

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