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The word 'shelt'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sheltOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.4344
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 78.5 24 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 65.6 6 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 36.3 2 1

Occurrences of shelt in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
chty pleat near as thick as a shelt's tail, sae lang that she cud
fat as a puddock fell aff his shelt an deid at the heicht o a bat
makk oot the shape o a carved shelt wi a chiel on his back. A Pic
nie Bruce secretly thocht the shelt micht be an ancestor o Fauldi
ho Fauldie wis bigger nur yon shelt, wi braider feet an heicher a
23 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
fisherman tell o an eildritch shelt that
1 matches

Aberdeen

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
ne loon.The veggie mannie’s shelt’s at the door wytin. Hash o
Fin he won ootside, the shelt an cairt war wytin.
uld Waltams was a cuddy, or a shelt. He hid niver heard it caad o
ollaed her jabbin finger. The shelt seemed to be grinnin, lauchin
ies. “Are ye nae takkin the shelt ooto the barn?” his faither
6 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
uik awaw the tuim anes in hiz shelt an cairt. I the drames o
1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Review Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
vieve, like the wumman wi the shelt bringin hame a bing o tangle on page 62

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
ae see thïs, let's big thrie sheltèrs, yin for you, yin for Mos on page 86
, an tha wee burds cum an tuk sheltèr amang ïts brenches." on page 94

2 matches

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