A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'toppin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
toppinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.866
ORK - Orkney
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 2
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of toppin in Corpus

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Aberdeen

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
Or pizza wi' toppin's then deep fried
1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
p the angel delight for dream toppin n al po roond lol (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ch and watchin these dafities toppin up their tans in places like
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
ma da's heard aboot, ay boays toppin thirsels efter treatment. on page 3

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
tae John an his actions. Fur toppin himsel! The coward’s waiy o
1 matches

General Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
o reddin up the berries, the toppin an tailin, wis pernicketie an
1 matches

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