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The word 'snipe'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
snipeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3108
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 4.9 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
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 snipe in Corpus

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Orkney

Miller, Alison Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Orkney, poetry
A brace o snipe he's shot oot on the loons, on page 40
There isna muckle aeteen on a snipe! on page 42

2 matches

Hall, Simon W. Crackan the troughs, (Brisk Northerly 2021) Orkney, blog
rtain birds more apparent – snipe, in particular, struggle wae
1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
pin wi da hound. Serenaded by snipe and whaups. https://t.co/xE0p(2019)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
"Furget it', ah snipe, "You're tellin me it's fair on page 126

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 86, (self-published 2001) Central, newspaper
fishin as ma erse kens aboot snipe shootin!"
1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
slaw mairch through mossland. Snipe, on page 112

1 matches

General Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
, The heather bleet, the mire snipe, How many birds be that?’ T
bleet is anither name for the snipe. In spite o the fact that Bur
2 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
otball as my erse knows aboot snipe shootin. on page 33

1 matches

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