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The word 'tatty'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tattyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4117
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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) 88.3 1 1
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 tatty in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Bit ah'm seek o tatty tinsel and them artifeecial t on page 81

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
he wis applied fur a job. Da tatty night club at he mindit wis n on page 57

1 matches

General Northern

TheChielMeister Nae mince in Moray, (youtube.com 2008) Doric, poetry
Plinty o' tatty, big green laef
Plinty o' tatty, big green laef
Plinty o' tatty, big green laef
3 matches

@sovereigndaisy tweeted
yer tatties wi. Serve posh wi tatty base, wiltit spinach, vine ro(2019)

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
look at thaim.' I picked up a tatty auld envelope, frayed at the on page 73

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
bittocks o bittocks raiped ti tatty cloots on page 27

2 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 63 - The Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2003, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
exhibeetions, jist the cheap tatty junk that rings up the tills.
1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
The tatty heid rowlin bak on page 15

1 matches

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