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The word 'rats'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ratsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.12924
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 4
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 21.7 4 2
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 88.3 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of rats in Corpus

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Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
ey turned on me like cornered rats. Why, Maggie? Why? They lied on page 21

1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
pound! He says he kills aa da rats an - oh dear, I doot A'm off on page 23

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ion, habitat damage, bycatch, rats and stuff. We're working on i(2018)

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
ounds! He says id kills all e rats an'-Oh ma michty!" said Alice on page 22

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
nests An I'we heard o smoked rats - nae accoontin for tastes on page 15

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
airns hid cam in like drookit rats. Ten tin flasks, stoppered wi
1 matches

General Northern

Strachan, Shane Tales Fae The Doric Side - Doric Dwams, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
us drookit rats. on page 30

1 matches

@AMaxwell54 tweeted
ih steadin. Ye could hear ih rats scuttlin aboot in ih waas!! N (2020) twitter link

@fittiecrooners tweeted
hoping this vote wid get yon rats arse tasting "meat" aff the b(2018)
Gammon finally replaced yon rats chewy liver on the Fittie Bar(2019)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
ions" or "dinnaes" for short. Rats wis aye kent as "lang-tail fe
1 matches

Paisley, Janet Lallans 62 - The Numpty, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
come hame. The folk here eat rats and drink pee from animuls ca
1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
cried Santa, "Hoo big are yer rats?
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
cos ee kin get the scurvy aff rats lol (2020) twitter link

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
onds! He says it kills aw the rats an-aw naw!" cried Alice in a on page 23

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
sorriest sichts iver seen-nae rats tae chase across the green an on page x
Nae rats thir days, jist sorbet ice on page 89
ff doon the back tae kick the rats on page 97

3 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
ound! He says it kills aa the rats an-ohhh, dear!" cried Alison, on page 22

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
Whaur rats hauf-mad for things tae eat on page 5

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
r tongs. It wis normally like rats' tails, hangin ower ma face, on page 39

1 matches

Goodbrand Saunders, Donald Lallans 67 - Twa Owresettins frae Heine, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Wae's me for the radical rats! on page 55

1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
room an kitchen. Ah hink the rats in the waa huv deid. https://(2020)

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
ed back tae th wee door; but, rats! Th wee door was shut agin, a on page 19
oun! Hei says eet kills aw th rats an-och nut!" cried Ahlice gie on page 22

2 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
ns! Hae says it kills aal the rats an-ugh dear!" gret Alice in a on page 23

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
O leppin, clattin rats. on page 27

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
"Theres rats in thonner" on page 18
"Theres rats in thonner'. on page 19

2 matches

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