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The word 'callt'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
calltOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.4142
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 38 7 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 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)

Occurrences of callt in Corpus

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West Central

@annieones tweeted
ed big boris tae a tee..... a callt him a fud yesterdae ?? (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

Grae, Emma Jimmy and his wee darlin Alexa, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
couldnae get enough o me. Ah callt hur McGee insteid o Bettie ta
d ma cheek. Bettie loved bein callt ma wee sparra. God knows she
e thocht ah wis, and ah never callt hur ma wee sparra again.
3 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
t enough o it as a wean. They callt me Edith Tango McGee...”
family, no since me and John callt it quits efter ma coma, and h
lown panic attack, ah’d huv callt them a bold-faced liar.
3 matches

Grae, Emma Billy's Ghost Dug, (liarsleague.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
‘Ye’ve gat a ghost dug callt Sparky?’
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
'Ned. Nae idea why they're callt bams roond here. They jist ar on page 5
onal writin and readin a book callt Underground to Canada. on page 6
ced himsel as Scout when he's callt Daniel. Clearly, changin yer on page 11
l. Efter aw, they arenae even callt neds. Fae whit ah've gathered on page 20
hat awready. There wis sommat callt shape poetry that ah'd ne'er on page 30
Also on pages 47
6 matches

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