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The word 'copper'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
copperOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.12717
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 30.1 6 2
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 13.1 10 6
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)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of copper in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
e 'o' brasso fur polyshen thi copper an brass, an Ov coarse eis we on page 5

1 matches

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
the local paper, wi Mither's copper-bottomed pan wi a tinny o gam on page 94

1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
@Lenniesaurus Tae make yer copper sulphate hingmies, tak a SUPP (2020) twitter link

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
re gowden, the coos backs lik copper. The taps o the trees looked on page 15

1 matches

(South) East Central

Peffers, Bob A Aboot Mid-Camps, Kirnitten, Bi East Cawther, (peffers50.freeserve 2002) Central - Fife, prose
e yaised a muckle stane built copper biler ootside, an ower the ro
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
Elder cunts hud ripped aw the copper n lead oot the place. Easy a on page 3

2 matches

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
r sneakin aboot like a fuckin copper. An whit’s wrang wae Pebble
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
as it that he’s goat a bent copper oan his payroll, McNulty. Get
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
There’s a beat copper staunin in the road behind me
u’re gaun in future.’ the copper sais an gies the roof a bang,
2 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
can mind readin the siller an copper coins an managin tae decipher on page 23

1 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
like it wis made frae tin nor copper. Didna aw sma lands in sic te on page 136

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 87 - The Neep Lantern, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Central, prose
the gutters whan A seen a wee copper weer runnin atween the fence- on page 22

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
t as snaw. Her hair is bricht copper and glinting in the sun; it c on page 3

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Tale o Three Dugs, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
n the kist and tak oot aw the copper pieces ye can cairry. Weel... on page 30
st and stappit his pooches wi copper. on page 33
king, had sneckit her up in a copper castle. He'd been tellt that, on page 41
e princess wis brocht fae the copper castle in a gowden cairriage, on page 48

5 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Three days in October, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
, laden wi shimmerin dreeps o copper an gowd. Laricks, their ochre
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
Whit the fuck sort o copper shoots a member o the public?(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Tindal, Betty Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
was the copper jeely pan; on page 149

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
Ah sut in the copper-tapped shelter in silence whi
hard tae sit in silence in a copper-tapped shelter withoot storie
2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
e gowld or siller, ner e'en a copper ïn yer girthpooch; !°tak na on page 9

1 matches

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