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The word 'puppet'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
puppetOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.9136
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 83.9 8 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 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 puppet in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 83 - The Puppet Mannie, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, poetry
The Puppet Mannie
ivver sic a rammie’s fan e puppet mannie cam?
y biggit sic a theeter, fan e puppet mannie cam
n ye kent it was the time for puppet plays.
fock ere was aboot im, fan e puppet mannie cam:
8 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
She is nithin like a puppet or marionette or flippin mupp on page 88

1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Puppet on a single string on page 76

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ayed oot by the actors in its puppet theatre, tethered as they ur
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
shaw Spitting Image haed the puppet o newsreader Alistair Burnett
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
afe in Holland, behavin lik a puppet master puin the strings.

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