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The word 'sotter'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sotterOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.43417
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 29.4 9 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 76.6 7 4
DOR - General Northern 62.1 14 5
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 sotter 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.

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
h leukit oan wi dismay it the sotter the place wis in: the girse w on page 86

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
glaisses. She dichtit up the sotter she'd made, gettin mair an ma on page 27

1 matches

Harper, Norman Stronach: A Weekly Look at Life in the Fictional North-East Village, (The Press and Journal 2000) Doric, newspaper
Erchie Sotter was not on his customary perc
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
r mither wiz deeved wi aa the sotter.”
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Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ived at the trenches and some sotter o gutters they proved tae be.
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bob the Dog fae the Bog, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
t it and there’d nae be ony sotter o bleed like fit you twa inte
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Hutchison, Pat Tarrarra boomby ae, This is my dying day, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
, “Aye min yer in a bit o a sotter!”
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Hutchison, Pat If I Catch Ye I'll Eat Ye, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
rown tae the wins. In an affa sotter o swyte an fear they ran towa
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
D1 @Wattiejwattie Sorry fir i sotter I left I i Lavvy.(2019)

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
an despite the sotter on page 15

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Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 57 - Mac, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Doric, prose
ark wi them; they mak an unco sotter o yer hoose an yer claes; an on page 27

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Strachan, Shane The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - An Eggs-traordinar Egg, (Itchy Coo 2020) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
"Och, fit a sotter!" mummlet een deuk. on page 18

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Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
in aboot in the dark, makin a sotter o aathin ye touch. Min' fit t on page 89

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Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 82 - Troke, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
aat. Weel, aat's faar aa the sotter was. Twise a wik, reglar as c on page 88

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Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 83 - The Umman, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
f-tirrt on the fleer in sic a sotter as ye wadna believe; an there
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Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
did ma best tae nae end up a sotter like him. Ye hear ma?
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General Northern

The Mannie Fae Unco The Diary o a Feel at the Skweel, (unco.scot 2021) Doric, prose
nae doot takin in the styowie sotter I wiz in but I wisna carin av
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@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
#Remain ? #Leave ? Fit a sotter! Er's nithin' mair giepit tha(2016)
@AbdnInspired fit a sotter, a've bin sufferin' strang wi(2016)
@BryanMcAdamsUK fit a sotter. Fazziboy? Talk a look see in(2016)
@EECharlieAllan fit a sotter wi' a thae pies in yer pic ma(2015)
skittered ma yella cape awfa sotter.(2016)
and 4 other occurrences.

@72redz1903 tweeted
RT @72redz1903 : Fit a fuckin sotter min https://t.co/cSPiRblgCU (2020) twitter link
Fit a fuckin sotter min https://t.co/cSPiRblgCU (2020) twitter link

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
this/ess Scots Wikipedia kirn/sotter/redd-up... ?????? https://t.c(2020)

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
pe yer gan tae tidy up ah yon sotter afore ye get dressed. Fit a r(2019)

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
h'm talkin aboot, ya skittery sotter!' the Trunchbull yelloched. " on page 114

1 matches

Sutherland, Hope Twa sisters, een room, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Buckie, prose
I’d personally say it’s a sotter. Stuff awy!
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General Central

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
eikness baith at wis makkin a sotter o her weel-ordert life. on page 21

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
it China acause o the soss an sotter of the sae-cried Cultural Rev
1 matches

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