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The word 'claps'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
clapsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.487
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
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 15.1 3 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 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 claps in Corpus

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General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
crottle claps tae bark haud me on page 3

1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Taid o that Ilk (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2009) Central, prose
keikit heistie-lik frae thair claps ti sei whitlik the stushie we
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
ods his own big solid nut. He claps his hands loudly. on page 59

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
fiddle, smitin. The audience claps, whisties, hoots, wan or two on page 3

1 matches

Kennedy, Julie Ma Mum and William Wordsworth, (Howkin Words Press 2024 ISBN: 978-1399988971) Central, prose
Marcella claps her hauns and puts them tae h on page 14

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
, as if they had been thunder-claps.
rwid’s wark. An the thunner claps that follaed on suggests whit
2 matches

White, George But the heart is gallus, (Facebook 2024) Central, prose
claps doon only whar’ the fancy t
1 matches

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