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The word 'saps'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sapsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.276
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 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 saps 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.

Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Saps in a cup if yur week, ur yur on page 31

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
in the middle at speen-feedin saps til a crochley aal craiter in on page 94

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ae tempt him tae eat wi sweet saps, or drog him wi toddy, bit ay
1 matches

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
n front o' the fire wi' their saps an' tell them stories, ocht a on page 6

1 matches

General Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth Makkin a muckle o a mickle, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
t at the fire or makkit intae saps wi warm milk, a sprackle o su
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
ple, - sic a cowards teachin saps our guid Bushido spirit on page 45

1 matches

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