A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'scrabble'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
scrabbleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6129
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 2
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 56.9 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of scrabble in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Referees the games o Scrabble, on page 23
You can keep your cairds and Scrabble fur they're no a substitute on page 34

2 matches

Forkin, Ellen Sea o Dunder, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
And the frantic scrabble
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 176, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
's a keen maimber o the local Scrabble club, white shell-suited Decl
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
boot a sudden urge fur me tae scrabble fur the exit. An unresponsive
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
Playin MacDiarmid At Scrabble on page 222

2 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
yais big wurds ye learn't et Scrabble.
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
. . wi nocht tae hear but the scrabble o rattons, an she sabs an sou on page 31

1 matches

Wallace, Lorna Tae A Selfie, (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2014) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
A scrabble tae git them awa’
1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
"Spellcheck" an Scrabble - baith tae blame for the fa (2014) twitter link
oon to oor neist Ulster Scots Scrabble nicht at Ballygellick, Appleb (2014) twitter link