A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

cottar Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words10.8 1 37.5 0 0 0 35.4
Number of occurrences352 25 0 0 0 8
Number of authors8 2 5 1

Occurrences of cottar in Corpus

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Central

Mackintosh, Jim The Banes o the Turas, (Tippermuir 2022 ISBN: 978-1913836313) Central, poetry
whaur the wee cottar-hooses on page 23

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
e, shawin maister an dug in a cottar hous, an stravaigin the hills on page 141

1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
A Cottar Quine on page 86
Ah'm prood te hiv bin a cottar quine an Ah widna chynge a th on page 89

4 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
wer her faither's parks tae a cottar hoose at the roadside far the
er niver bothered tae gie the cottar fowk their richt names, fur t
Rodden Hoosie wis the auldest cottar hoose on the ferm. Its kail y
s the Troot Wallie, far ivery cottar that iver cam tae bide in the
she didna makk friens wi the cottar bairns, shiftless, thriftless
18 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
acy an them aa bidin in a wee cottar hoose the wye they did. Her e
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Cottar & Chaumer added to database. (2015) search twitter

@AMaxwell54 tweeted
y wis ma uncle. We bade in ih cottar hoose by ih steadin. Ye could (2020) twitter link

Ulster

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
fla, Dan, flittit til tha oul cottar-hoose, it wus spring an wee w
Tha cottar-hoose wus nae mair nor tha tw
n richt owre tha wundae o tha cottar hoose, keepin oot tha licht.
ch tha moontins ahint tha wee cottar hoose.
Ben tha cottar hoose, Grace heerd a wile cra
8 matches

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