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The word 'seaweed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
seaweedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.51814
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 3
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of seaweed in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
shiny fan o seaweed, dark spaghetti on page 49

1 matches

Brown, Moyra Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
dishes and chamchars, fuul o seaweed and sand on page 29

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
the neighbours share out the seaweed?" on page 10

3 matches

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
German - wis waar (fur kelp/seaweed).

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
I've been tae collect seaweed torn ashore fae da weekend ga(2020)

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
uce served on a bed of crispy seaweed. on page 36

2 matches

Harper, Edith The Wye Athin Chynges, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2020) Doric, poetry
A guff fae a tangle o seaweed
1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
fae Gushetneuk went then took seaweed hame on return(2020)

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
aw white an' still-like, wi' seaweed fur his hair, driftin' doon a on page 16

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
d, Wibbit a big bunch a slimy seaweed. on page 112

1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
front ay the hotel wafts that seaweed smell an a wee salty breeze, on page 3

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
the tang o saut and seaweed frae Kirkmaiden shore. on page 25

1 matches

Ross, Derek Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
A lane stalk o seaweed, on page 200

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
ea monsters draped in slairgy seaweed. Jenny teuk tae greetin an ah
y was first tae peel back his seaweed. ‘Ha ha! Gotcha!’ he saed
2 matches

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