A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'littered'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
litteredOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.897
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
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 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 littered in Corpus

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Shetland

Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
ore him. Peerie chunks o' ice littered da horizon, as if an artist h
1 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
news article I read online is littered wi spelling mistaks, does nob (2020) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
d ilka mornin her greenie wiz littered wi empty tins and bottles. Be
1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
Chairs an sofa are littered wi newspaper-wrapped hings. J on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
fact that the shoap flair wis littered wae a dozen or so scrunched u on page 35

1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
theatres and the fancy shoaps littered acroass Princess Street. Itâ€
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
nd round the swings n they're littered wae black n blue blobs, where on page 24
war memorial n other displays littered around the place. The young t on page 58

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General Central

@Chazzbat tweeted
ner @FrankOctopus The 80s wis littered wi songs aboot nuclear war. W(2020)