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The word 'cotton'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cottonOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.63220
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 3
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 5
NEC - North East Central 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 1
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 37.2 6 2
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of cotton in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
u pair in poly, a treesome in cotton gang trou a fowersome in sill on page 139

1 matches

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
nside, carefully packed up in cotton wool. Hid luked nothen specia on page 37

1 matches

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
orse brokin road. Sways o bog cotton on page 60

1 matches

Shetland

Walterson, Barbara Da Trow o’ Fogla Skerry, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
™s boat, waves oxford blue wi cotton coloured foam, aggressively b
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ttons on her blouse, the fite cotton stukken wi swyte tae her thin
ean quinie, an spreid oot her cotton peenie, an wyted while Matty
2 matches

Harper, Edith Legacy, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2021) Doric, poetry
o tweeds an serge an cotton-lawn.
1 matches

General Northern

Bolland, John Tales Fae The Doric Side - Hadean Eon: 4.5 Billion Years ago , (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
a bobbin birlin up es cotton-candy on page 82

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Aa tak cotton wool on page 170

1 matches

Gray, Kath Lallans 63 - Aikey Brae Fair – 1962, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
ppears wi her heid covered in cotton wool and there’s wires stic
1 matches

Devlin, Edwin The School Dentist 1969, (Facebook 2020) Doric, prose
woke up later wi a moo fae of cotton wool ah moved ma tongue aboot
1 matches

@beast_afc tweeted
iehoban05 Boots stappit fu we cotton wool I see. https://t.co/Ppy1(2020)

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Tartan Tourism nae mair, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
ae its lums an us tossed like cotton through the lift as the wind
1 matches

(South) East Central

Moodie, Gordon D. Lallans 90 - Snoke Iz A Pithie Warlock, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
oond ma ain wey - twa ba's o cotton-woo dookit in 'rose watter' a on page 80
t flochter. Ah huvnae pit the cotton-woo ba's up ma neb the day cu on page 81

2 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
rlike. She aye hud on a broon cotton smock nippit in at the waist on page 77
claucht fur dear life at the cotton smock happeq ower the muckle on page 160
room in her green breeks and cotton smock. She gaed straight ower on page 210

3 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
chine pairts, bales o jute or cotton, or great pallets o fruit an on page 55
e dock, a ship haudin bales o cotton an ither material an in order on page 58

2 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
o bog-cotton. This richteous chairge tae b on page 112

2 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 70 - The Primped Skull, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
an syne, bog-cotton laich, the rose o Scotland,
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
done he passes me a piece ae cotton wool tae press oan the scratc
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
oan his drink. ‘’Egyptian cotton, yae ken how much that’s wo
‘’Egyptian cotton?’’ ah ponder. ‘’Makes
2 matches

Glasgow

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ur visible inside the bundelt cotton, wool an quilt. She pullt the
1 matches

General Central

Scott, Colin nobody remembers the birdman - Empty Nest, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, poetry
a white cotton coverall ower his street clae on page 171

1 matches

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
yella wawpaper, geraniums, an cotton curtains at the windaes, wis on page 137
ch for keys an jouked ben the cotton hingin tae her secont chaumer on page 138

3 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Cotton chiels, Green Boys o Greba, a on page 1

1 matches

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