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The word 'erses'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ersesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.42419
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
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 13.3 3 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.7 5 4
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of erses in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Mrs Clushet o Faaldydykes, (McStorytellers.com 2018) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ome rinnin if a fart in their erses gings wrang. In ither words a
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
tae scowp oot an skelp their erses!(2017)

General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
Plinty time to be up tae were erses in sna.(2020)
tdogs I hope she nipped their erses. Well done ????(2020)
scotdogs Hope he nipped their erses!(2020)

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
meinits ago, get aff yer lazy erses an get back til yer darg!" on page 86

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
auld enough tae wipe oor ain erses. It didnae matter whether it on page 95
ae stoap Aldo suckin up their erses though. And anytime he wis ar on page 196

2 matches

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
uckle ataa. They perked their erses in the ae place and sat aboot
1 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
The mainstream media’s erses squeak aboot Scots because it
1 matches

West Central

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
eeky Thur mither skelped thur erses sair An’ sent the pair e”
1 matches

Kirk Jn, Albert Whit, (albertkirkjr.com 2022) Central - Aryshire, blog
Or laither yer erses, nocht tae expone;
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
tartan on the muin, frae sexy erses tae saunnies. Aw oor lives in on page x
fever, reams o rinnie noses, erses tae on page 51
And they get their wee erses liftit. on page 83

3 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
osive! So, we huv tae got wur erses in gear cos it's the repeatin on page

1 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
Rather sit oan their erses, an pat their ain backs, on page 16

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 73 - Waashin Day Weirriors, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
Ye wee middens. Ah'll gie yer erses tallywheech whan ah gi haud o on page 65

1 matches

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
xiteers say comes oot o their erses.(2018)

@Chazzbat tweeted
me, why ur ye mitherin me(?) Erses. ??(2020)

South East (Borders)

@officialAliRed tweeted
parking his brogues up a few erses if he saw the state of the to(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
thir erses waarm, thir wee machine fou on page 32

1 matches

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
beamed bricht red like skelpt erses if ye went onywhere near them on page 76

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Smert-erses gied oor team nae chaunce on page 41

1 matches

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