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The word 'portion'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
portionOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.22413
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 32 3 1
LAL - General Central 13.1 10 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 portion in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
rry, sweet an soor chucken, a portion o egg-fried rice, praan crack on page 72

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Michty me, fit a muckle portion! Ah had a richt guid denner f(2017)

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
When Jesus is my portion,
1 matches

General Northern

Noble, Brian , (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
As for portion size mak it heaps
1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
coast is cheaper but a bigger portion and shades it for me m8 (2021) twitter link
ly tasty but that is a childs portion - tut tut! https://t.co/gbXm (2021) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
t oot the shop an ah opent ma portion a fritter ah no. ticed she'd on page 142
id wis sit an munch intae her portion ae the stolen Quality Street; on page 155

2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
s - places whaur the average portion wuid fleg the life oot o aw t on page 56
rrant soup plates, nane o yer portion control nonsense in them days on page 58

2 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
Broun cam intae his faither's portion o grun at Priesthill - that on page 25
bocht a wee ten-shillingland portion o Greenock caad Cruikedbank. on page 48
Hugh shuid mebbe tak ower the portion alang wi yersel when he is au on page 77

3 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
Freya's necklace as hir bride portion. on page 14

6 matches

Dareau, Mareau Lallans 59 - The Dictionar o the Aulder Scottis Leid (DOST), (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
skera 'tae cut'. It means 'a portion', ae sense bein a portion o s on page 59

2 matches

astrothsknot The Auld Man O Jerah, (archiveofourown.org 2018) Central, prose
Jennet pyt a portion oot fyr the Guid Folk an kept
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
. Piece means 'sandwich'; no 'portion'. Shuir that folk will hae si (2020) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
mentioning that cartilaginous portion on page 102

1 matches

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