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The word 'porritch'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
porritchOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.274
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 2
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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) 102.5 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of porritch in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Gawds! Fa wid aet this porritch? https://t.co/SyetpHzBsQ(2019)
Save yer braith tae cool yer porritch! https://t.co/7Z8oHTYRQe(2020)
Did ye hiv yer porritch fur braakfist this morn? http(2020)

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@DoricPhrases Gees buttery porritch and I micht be in.(2019)

General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
yon microwave stuff they caa porritch.(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
e. Then he gien it some o tha porritch he had steepin fur themorra's on page 18

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