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The word 'cubes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cubesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2148
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.5 6 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 3
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 cubes in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
ice cream scoop, an watch the cubes spill oot lowsly an obedientl (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Allan, Alasdair Lallans 102 - Defenestration, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
st kept his heid doon an drew cubes frae aw the sindrie angles Mr on page 84
he day, insteid o jist drawin cubes frae their ain fevered imagin on page 86
"We will be drawing cubes today", said Mr Gowanlock. on page 90

5 matches

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
the front green. Muckle rusty cubes an con nectors. They looked a on page 7

1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
reezer and grabs a bag ae ice cubes and then heids back oor tae t
1 matches

Glasgow

Kennedy, Julie Ma Mum and William Wordsworth, (Howkin Words Press 2024 ISBN: 978-1399988971) Central, prose
le drink oan the telly wi ice cubes clinkin in a glass but ma mam on page 10

1 matches

General Central

Cairns, Pauline Lallans 83 - Boeuf Bourguignon, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
teak chappit intil bite sized cubes an rummelt aboot in seasoned on page 68

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
cauld weather. I mak hoat ice cubes and aw for pittin in hoat dri on page 119

2 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
rlic, red pepper/tomato stock cubes, 3 tins toms, oregano, paprik(2020)

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