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The word 'popcorn'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
popcornOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.177
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 3.3 1 1
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 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of popcorn in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
a Snickers bar, or a grain o popcorn. No drink fur God's sake, the (2021) twitter link

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
n, foo are the noisy munching popcorn eaters gyan tae manage tae st(2020)

General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
wife asked if I funcied some popcorn wi ma beer I thocht she mint (2020)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
said, An a giant box a saltet popcorn an a-big bottle ae Irn Bru an on page 112

1 matches

Glasgow

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
ty minutes while ye munch yer popcorn and sook yer Tango Ice Blast. on page 21

1 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
the gadgie behind dropped his popcorn doon yer neck an' the weans i on page

1 matches

Puchowski, James Frae Norrowa ower the faem, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
ll be sittin back wi a bowl o popcorn while I watch thir airguement
1 matches

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