A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sipped'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sippedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.864
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
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)
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) 98.5 3 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sipped in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
Mrs Dursley sipped her tea through pursed lips.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ey?” Gus said quietly as he sipped his Guinness.
1 matches

General Central

@ThonJacobite tweeted
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East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
She sipped bak the velvetie fluid an hir on page 30

1 matches

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
s an ma airms ah smiled as ah sipped pride throu the straw o ma st
still taste the pride ah haed sipped on the road hame frae the sho
2 matches

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