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The word 'suttin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
suttinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus25.5833
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 180 71 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 68.9 11 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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)

Occurrences of suttin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
e, Billy an Eileen war ariddy suttin doon. "Here's ma maan noo! Co on page 34

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ay; ah hud such dreams. Then, suttin happens, suttin Nostradamus c on page 14
ur belly, that hunger tae dae suttin wae yur life. Gee it time, fu on page 15
couple ae minutes he telt us suttin we should huv kent aw along: on page 17
t, ah try tae convince maself suttin will turn up. Ah guess Genera on page 20
easy choice? Lit me tell yae suttin, ah grafted maist ae ma days on page 21
Also on pages 28, 29, 32, 33, 37, 42, 48, 50, 59, 61, 67, 69, 71, 72, 73, 76, 79, 81, 84, 85, 86, 88, 89, 96, 97, 102, 103, 104, 108, 109, 112, 113, 116, 118, 120, 123, 125, 137, 156, 160, 162, 163, 171, 173, 177, 179, 181
68 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
ng, it must be said, is hayin suttin ae a therapeutic effect oan h
nt cawed Ivan the Terrible or suttin fur a Russian.’’
’Ah’m certain we kin work suttin oot, lads’’ Danny says
3 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
at aw excited. It wis clearly suttin they enjoyed watchin as a fam on page 34
e and then that ah musta said suttin wrong. Although ah wis genuin on page 36

2 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
oled up and ready tae go than suttin ah cannae even see. Up tae th
t now, ken? it’s different. Suttin aboot it hus changed. And ahâ
2 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
d me as much as text the day. Suttin is defo up, likes. And as muc
oot a life jaicket. There’s suttin different aboot Bruce tae as
2 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
aranoid but that doesnae mean suttin isnae oot tae git me. And the
‘’Ken suttin, Aldo? You really do need tae
see Dougie is itchin tae say suttin but at the same time seems un
‘’Well, mibbie you ken suttin ah dinnae?’’
4 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
in depressed or worried aboot suttin himsel.
1 matches

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