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The word 'paraffin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
paraffinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.42812
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 45.8 14 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 paraffin 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

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ck at night, pestering me for paraffin, you over-sexed, undersized r on page 14

2 matches

De Luca, Christine Dodie's Phenomenal Pheesic, (Shetland For Wirds 2008) Shetland, weans
LIQUID PARAFFIN, da neist een wis caa’ed. H
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
ly on cunnul's, tilly lump's, paraffin heeter's en ov coarse, oor fy on page 4
fur feedin thi tilly lump we paraffin, fyle en thi baakgroon yea co on page 5
f 'o' eit, so we hid tae wurk paraffin heeter's, en thi skulrie an a on page 6
ent's. So aye nicht a nailt a paraffin heeter tae thi fleer en thi b on page 50
thinken aboot thi situation, paraffin wis deer, bit deesil wis chai on page 51
Also on pages 52
12 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
. On the secunt nicht fin the paraffin lamp wis flichterin low an th
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Mrs Clushet o Faaldydykes, (McStorytellers.com 2018) Doric - Banffshire, prose
and left it burning, wasting paraffin wisna the worst o’t? The th
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
a lantren wi paraffin an a wee stove, so he cood bi
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
campin stove that ye fill wi paraffin and ye licht it at the tap an on page 180
nd the rest jist aboot covers paraffin fur ma stove and ma lamp, and on page 197

3 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
LIQUID PARAFFIN, the nixt yin wis cawed. It w on page 21

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
lute (suit); Joe Soap (dope); paraffin, paraffin ile (style); plates
, paraffin ile (style); plates o’ meat
iatit wi Glasgow. Ithers like paraffin must be Scots because ile rhy
3 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
. ?? Wonder if it wid run oan paraffin?.. (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Petrol, oils and paraffin on page 40

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 12, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
spot oan the bank an lit the paraffin stove an pumpt it up till it
1 matches

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