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The word 'spoon'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spoonOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus17.85925
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland 34.9 6 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
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 5.2 2 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 15.1 3 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 42 32 8
SEA - South East (Borders) 36.3 3 3
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 58.1 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 142.8 4 2
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 56.9 2 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of spoon in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
ootside the greasy spoon, on page 5

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
oan the greasy spoon grundhog day café on page 12

1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Meenie’s Viking spoon, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
she axed, haadin up wir soup spoon. “Hit’s no joost ony lade
l, dere’s a story ahint dis spoon,” she said.
aid reckin for da silver soup spoon.
ockit in his lugs wi wir soup spoon?”
ll niver preeve soup fae yon spoon agaen,” announced Snurtysle
5 matches

Watt, Valerie Cheerio for eenoo . . ., (Shetland Times 2011) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
elt wis da history o her soup spoon? Whit a sook in we aa got whe
1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
kindly permitted till poket e spoon: on page 102

1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
At I stole frae a loon (Sic a spoon) on page 177

1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@Scotlandteam wooden spoon in the 6 nations at this rate (2020) twitter link
s well - time the born wae a spoon in there mouth learned to ada (2021) twitter link

West Central

Lochhead, Liz Ashet, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
bby aul chrome-platit slottit-spoon
1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
five letter word for a large spoon?' As soon as the presenter fi on page 35

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
ndly permitirt tae pockle the spoon: on page 104

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
Ee points tae ma spoon lyin oan the hard flair, must on page 3

1 matches

Kennedy, Julie Ma Mum and William Wordsworth, (Howkin Words Press 2024 ISBN: 978-1399988971) Central, prose
in the skin expertly wi a tea spoon. Well, che Pope's heid must b on page 14

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
'Yin spoon,' she said. 'And nae milk.' on page 2
o tea wi a teabag. He pit yin spoon o sugar in it and nae milk. H on page 3
e howked it aw oot wi an auld spoon and plowped it intae the pan. on page 24
s yin. He foond a lang widden spoon in a kitchen drawer and stert on page 32
the mixter wi the lang widden spoon. Jings-bings! It wis aw broon on page 35
Also on pages 37, 38, 39, 47, 52, 53, 80, 81, 86, 90, 92
23 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
Oh'", and syne cleeked at the spoon again jist as it wis disappea on page 32

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
on the table wi her parritch spoon. Violet and Klaus brak aff fa on page 33
dundert on a pot wi a widden spoon, singin a wee sang she had co on page 44
o him, but, she picked up her spoon in her richt haund and stairt on page 72

3 matches

White, Ian Nimmo Lallans 73 - Whit credit crunch, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
in a sma spoon : Wheh wud Ah on page 51

1 matches

Watt, George T. Lallans 73 - Gruggie, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
e a Junky's syringe loaded wi spoon-het venom, on page 74

1 matches

@gordimhor1 tweeted
ll be busy poking ma een wi a spoon(2018)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
Big Soup Pot, the Big servin Spoon. Ah've heard we're the ONLY c(2020)

@fairpechtoot tweeted
ter - aw ye need is a widden spoon! ;-) Scots has aye been in ou(2016)

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
ndly permitted tae poochle th spoon: on page 104

1 matches

@jamie_ginger tweeted
ad o shite. Fuckin aboot wi a spoon and birlling it aboot on yir (2019)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
sed snob with a muckle silver spoon up his erse! ????(2020)

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Yarns 3 - Brae / Sheugh / Cannae / Piece, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Ballymena, poetry
Nae china plate nor silver spoon
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
se tay we hae bocht", ir "Yin spoon fur ivery boadie, dochter, *A on page 13
Wi pumpie flesk, taybag an spoon, T'wud gar ye grue. on page 14

2 matches

NewtonLass Tay, (newtonlass.blogspot.com 2011) Ulster - Newtownards, poetry
“Yin spoon fur ivery boadie, dochter,
Wi pumpie flesk, taybag an spoon,
2 matches

General Ulster

Ullans Speakers Association Nursery Rhymes for Weans, (Ulster-Scots Agency 2008 ISBN: 978-0955791697) Ulster, weans
An tha dish rin awa wae tha spoon. on page 4

1 matches

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
them oot the pot with the big spoon, dumped butter in it too?????(2020)

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