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The word 'cottar'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cottarOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.8358
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 78.5 24 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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) 409.8 8 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of cottar in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

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)

General Northern

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

West Central

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

General Central

Mackintosh, Jim The Banes o the Turas, (Tippermuir 2022 ISBN: 978-1913836313) Central, poetry
whaur the wee cottar-hooses on page 33

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

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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