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The word 'onion'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
onionOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.21410
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 3
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 5.2 2 1
WCE - West Central 17.8 4 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of onion 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.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Aal warm in onion gravy in a final, earthly sle on page 57

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Haggis tasting notes, and whisky pairings, (Brisk Northerly 2019) Orkney, blog
romas o gravy and caramelised onion. High oatmeal content again m
1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
ae. Nivver fairly sure if the onion pert wis ok tae aet(2020)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@JakeMoyes1108 enjoy onion jonny lol (2021) twitter link
sirloin steak-chips n peas n onion rings fir ma tea the nicht - (2021) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
, Ah'd two packets ae pickult onion Space Raiders. Charlene whit on page 145
an twelve, Walkers cheese an onion a hunner an eighty four, Walk on page 147
in fae school. She's a funny onion that yin, ma ma said, She dis on page 169

3 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Twa pund o tatties, an onion, on page 59

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
sausages, Carrots, totties an onion. on page 13

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
sausages, carrots, totties an onion.
1 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
is, she's eatin' a cheese an' onion toastie sidie-ways, plannin' on page

1 matches

@raiphsays tweeted
t, wee bit Wooster sauce, wan onion, lemon juice, wee bit ketchup(2020)

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
plain loaf an Tayto cheese an onion crisps in a bag for crisp san
1 matches

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