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The word 'raffle'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
raffleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.21412
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 raffle in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
We lukk'd like raffle prizes at the Kirkwall Lammas on page 3
A screwed-up raffle ticket that cheust might hiv on page 30
The Age Concern raffle? A bottle o wine. on page 79

3 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
a while wae got it oot o the raffle and back in the field wae the on page 129

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
won in da Shetland Jazz Club raffle. http://t.co/RW5m1zEtA6(2015)

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
wid ye credit that? Ye've the raffle prize as weel" on page 15

1 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
irted his claes amo them in a raffle. E fowk steed watchin an e ro on page 119

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
un them in last year’s Xmas raffle. Fit are YOU giein
1 matches

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
e," Hercules yelled. "Awa and raffle yirsel." on page 37

1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
Miss Honey. 'If ye're sellin raffle tickets ah'm no wantin ony.' on page 86

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Rants and Foys, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
club's funds there is aften a raffle, an veesitin artists sell the on page 56

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
"Och, awa an raffle yer doughnut!" said Alice fir on page 79

1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
ither puit ma name on a Store raffle ticket when I wis aboot seive on page 23

1 matches

General Central

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
r nor a box o shortbreid in a raffle afore nou.(2018)