A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'oat'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
oatOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.71211
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
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 oat in Corpus

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Orkney

Towrie, David Wirkin' the Tang - a dialect tale, (Orkneyjar 2010) Orkney, prose
ean. An than another boat set oat fae the noust and geed in the
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
ae him tae the schule, jumpit oat at the faerie knowe hopin tae on page 84

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
Teenie teetit oat frae a hole in his pooch an s
mmily wirm, an chawed his wye oat at the ither en.
2 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
n skirlie doon. Fine oatmeal, oat flakes, ingin and suet. Aa mi(2019)

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
'Ye mith mak a baar wi oat," Said the peerie-wee vycikie on page 39

1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
ot tae get intae this - love oat milk, and apart fae his Mithe (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
oat the windae. "That's whit ye g on page 1

1 matches

West Central

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
He cried oat eftir me on page 136

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
problem, Port, Stilton an’ Oat Cakes. A’d Jist feenished r
1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
h brush ower ma bulge. Ah let oat ma loudest moan yet, so grate
1 matches

General Central

@RickHJohnston tweeted
Ditto Iona, gaed ower tae oat milk masel. Worked in coffee (2022) twitter link