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The word 'starter'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
starterOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3119
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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 starter in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie An onkerry for a kerry oot, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
“Wir starter is spare ribs,” she declare
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
Noo we didna hay an electric starter lyke maist fowk, So we wurket on page 20
leev on a slope eis a baak up starter. She run jist fyne eence she on page 50

2 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
ing wrang wi it. Took aff the starter, gaed it a clean,
Jonsar tried the starter the engine simply sprang inta
2 matches

(South) East Central

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
"Tell Sweeney it's a non-starter. You can take a horse and all on page 1

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
eh thought eh wiz a non-starter on page 114

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
“Last starter for ten.” auld Bamber said,
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
a text, therr a conversation starter. Greggs he approves ay. It gi on page 3

1 matches

General Central

@fairpechtoot tweeted
lMcF @davcr Goin recommend a 'starter' David Crystal book fir me pl(2016)

@LairnScots tweeted
s ghaist stories. Braw lesson starter fir scrievin! https://t.co/VC (2017) twitter link