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The word 'buttoned'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
buttonedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.41410
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of buttoned in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
m trees an tropical fruit. He buttoned imsel up an drappit is draars on page 38

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
Sally Bruce hid a tweed cape buttoned roon her neck, an a thick wor
lugs. His galluses wadna bide buttoned, an Matty's mither wis ficher
eps twa at a time wi her lang-buttoned beets. Cottar bairns micht gy
3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
in a fleerish o lace an blaik buttoned buits, makkin a bee-line fur
1 matches

Aberdeen

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
ynts,” his Ma wheedlit. She buttoned him inno his blazer an led hi
1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
The man buttoned up his coat an" he wrappit it on page 28

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
st Cherlie, ye maun think I'm buttoned up the back - gin I pey Yakc on page 86

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
aid watch it hen, an she soon buttoned it cause she knows ah know fa on page 169

1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 82 - Biggin the Great Nor Road, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
The mudbanks are crab-buttoned. The watterbend on page 67

1 matches

General Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
And aa the while, ablow ma buttoned sark, on page 82

1 matches

@OliphantWullie tweeted
overnment must hae their heid buttoned up the back. They'll gan to A (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Tindal, Betty Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
weet welliebuits, rubber-buttoned bodices, on page 156

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
in wirds intae the bak as she buttoned up hir coat an tidied away he on page 1

1 matches

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