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The word 'turnip'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
turnipOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.177
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 1468.4 1 1
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of turnip in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
As lang as ony turnip shaw
1 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
yon braw the day. Heed like a turnip efter a few too many nips of (2017)

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
Bit there's fowk thit think 'turnip' is a wee fite thing the size(2020)

General Central

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
belMcF I suid hae said Donald Turnip 's son-in-law...!(2018)

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
Turnip Pee! on page 31

1 matches

Eastern Ulster (Belfast)

Atkinson, David Yarns 3 - Tha Giss Got Fat, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Belfast, poetry
an sent us oot wi turnip lenterns, nae pumpkins mind,
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Cromie, Willie Doon tha Wal Raa, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2024 ISBN: 978-1739905620) Ulster - Ballywalter, prose
A turnip is a turmit
1 matches

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