A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'tolt'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
toltOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus43.41393
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 639 139 3
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)
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 tolt in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
right the way through till it tolt us the answers in English. on page 17
gaun in. Sammy wid probly huv tolt evrubdy aboot ma test paper c on page 19
arlene said, Next time we get tolt tae dae Social Dancin ah'm ga on page 26
bein a pure nippy sweetie. Ah tolt her ah wis fine, she's never on page 28
arlene gied her the finger an tolt her tae spin on it an walked on page 31
Also on pages 33, 34, 36, 37, 40, 43, 45, 48, 50, 51, 52, 59, 61, 63, , 67, 68, 71, 73, 75, 76, 77, 79, 81, 82, 83, 85, 86, 88, 96, 97, 98, 99, 101, 103, 104, 106, 107, 111, 114, 119, 120, 121, 122, 124, 127, 131, 132, 135, 136, 137, 140, 142, 143, 146, 147, 148, 149, 153, 159, 163, 164, 169
127 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Mumbo Jumbo, (Litro magazine 2006) Central, prose
right the way through till it tolt us the answers in English.
gaun in. Sammy wid probly huv tolt evrubdy aboot ma test paper c
Oor teacher tolt us it wis sha-toe, said Karen
3 matches

Percy, Ely The Family Situation, (The Interpreters House.org 2020) Central, prose
Clicky musta tolt Kelly whit ah said aboot her,
r gaun up tae her door but ah tolt him no tae. Ah wis pure morti
r the apple episode an he’s tolt her tae keep well back fae me
it happent, but ma wee sister tolt me: apparently Kelly snogged
4 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Cantsmell, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2020) Central, prose
cos she keeps talkin. She got tolt the next time she comes in sh
Ah didnae know until she tolt me this, but Laura caught nit
2 matches

Alston, Connor THE BLACK-EYED CHILDREN OF SCOTLAND, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
Ma Da wance tolt me a story (or whit a thought
n as there’s a story tae be tolt). When they goat there it loo
n. Jim went back upstairs and tolt Carol erything that happent.
3 matches

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