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The word 'suppers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
suppersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.22414
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 31.5 3 2
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 14.6 6 3
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 4
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 suppers in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
mony a pyoke o sweeties Chip suppers, ice cream cones on page 15

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ir pals often hae yon 'Safari Suppers'." on page 26
y - een o wir famous 'Safari Suppers'. It micht gie ye a chunce te on page 31
hid've hid een © yer 'Safari Suppers' the nicht... a real safari, on page 32

3 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 87 - Andy, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, prose
They war jist feenishin their suppers, fan the Rev. Renton Hustings on page 30

1 matches

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
Basket suppers wir the new thing
Tho' folk now say fish suppers are nae a' 'at healthy
2 matches

General Northern

Leslie, Deborah Tales Fae The Doric Side - Mabel, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
anda's a total legend - fish suppers fir him an Grunny an a great on page 95

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
back tae Ellon, mealy pudden suppers fir twa on page 178

1 matches

@beast_afc tweeted
d leave we 5 battered sausage suppers. Yiv jist got tae heeve oot t(2020)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
the Immortal Memory at Burns Suppers, aye keeps on tellin fowk tha
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - Bellin the Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Ormiston, prose
ca’d back wi Irn Bru, pizza suppers wi Dr Pepper, an Internet Rel
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
sumbuddy that lives oan fish suppers n fry ups n sirloin steaks - (2021) twitter link
fry ups/ sirloin stakes/fish suppers n krispy krem do nuttz lol (2021) twitter link
- gaun up wae a cuppla fish suppers fir a blether lol (2020) twitter link
n brother - am doon fir fish suppers awe the time lol (2021) twitter link

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
rs on it. The day it wis fish suppers, which Mrs Wormwidd got at th on page 49

2 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
fehv peh suppers oot the deep sea, mario on page 33

1 matches

Matheson, Ann Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
weill, wi the nummer o Burns Suppers he taks pairt in, recitin an on page 127

1 matches

Ewen, Allan The Blin Man an the Man Wha Couldna See, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
he warl’s best fish an chip suppers. Dundee: industry, ingenuity.
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
@djc2711 @Nod641 Suppers anytime before bed as a kid a(2020)

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