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The word 'attic'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
atticOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.32114
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 2
MNB - Mid Northern B 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 42 4 2
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.3 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of attic in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The boxes aer doon fae the attic on page 145

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ed Jeremy Kyle an Cash in the Attic...an noo, Ah'm jist shovin in on page 84

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
. Meg sleepit up in the nerra attic room at Steenhillock, near cr
her bedroom windae up in the attic wis glittery an fite wi frost
on tap o the press in her wee attic bedroom. Blaik varnished it w
ar heich on the waa o her wee attic room, Minnie's een blinkit op
4 matches

Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
been involved in...apart frae attic door...the rescuers got peeve (2022) twitter link

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
hid advertised bi the name o 'attic' he hid a gran view maist day on page 29

1 matches

Lawrie, Alistair Northwords Now 45 - The Win, (Northwords Now 2024) Doric - Peterhead, prose
ent on til the steers tae the attic. He unlockit it an turned his
lenth o the hoose, the haill attic space an, for an attic, it ha
space an, for an attic, it had a roof that wisna owe
3 matches

(South) East Central

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
up in the attic. The pig had kept him aw that on page 7

2 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
the missus tae clear oot the attic. A borin bastard ae a on page 185

1 matches

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
e glass ceiling an buildin an attic? on page 15

1 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
r - that wis luxury - ur an attic ur a spare room. It must have on page 47

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Stevenson, Gerda Kilmeny, (Scottish Language Center 2021) Southern - Scottish Borders, prose
tairs. She’d been up in the attic an aa, pullin oot auld gansey
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Drosten, John Lallans 67 - Fower Poems bi John Drosten, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
i the soond-pruifed attic on page 133

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
un yin o tha oul looms in tha attic an gien it tae tha Fowk Museu on page 8

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
iks he had read in a gigantic attic in a lopsided folly. on page 53
. Six runs up an doon tae the attic each they had daen, the boys on page 57

2 matches

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