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The word 'sideboard'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sideboardOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.5219
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 13.1 4 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
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 27.3 6 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.6 8 3
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 sideboard in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
aalwis in the sideboard on page 46

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
an blunkets an a scrattit aul sideboard wechtit doon wi weel-thoomed on page 69
ce at wis the colour o an aul sideboard. "I have a tanning session fo on page 81

2 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@TacketyBeets Aye. Mithers sideboard hid babycham and Advocaat.(2019)
euchtertoni I'm awa ti raid i sideboard.(2019)

General Northern

McDonald, Charlie Doric Scots Books an Poems, (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
used tin that wis kept in the sideboard
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
and opened the drawer in the sideboard whaur she kent her faither ke on page 204

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Clyde Built, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
staunin, huddled next tae the sideboard in his livin room feart tae b
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
dge the washin hingin oer the sideboard an radiators. There’s auld
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
widden box he pulls oot fae a sideboard. He goes intae another drawer
t?’ ah sais, noddin tae the sideboard. ‘You’ll know aw aboot th
2 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
me kindlin in the drawer ay a sideboard next tae the windae an there
1 matches

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
time it wis strippin an auld sideboard that came fae ma granny's. An
1 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 102 - Editorial: Jean Tamson’s Bairns, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
ae shaw aff a tassie on their sideboard or cludgie isnae our main con on page 8

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
roon medicine staundin on the sideboard. It looked like awfie stuff. on page 14
bottle o GIN staundin on the sideboard. Grannie wis gey fond o gin. on page 24
annie's real medicine fae the sideboard. He taen oot the cork and cow on page 36
in lay ready on the. kitchen sideboard. Geordie picked it up. on page 37

4 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
Ah look at the sideboard, at Da's framed funeral mass on page 43
n America somewhere oan their sideboard. Even in their auld age, they on page 79
ur, Bettie and Malcom oan hur sideboard - Malcom, the bugger, hud hi on page 116

3 matches

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