A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'cretters'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
crettersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.581
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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) 251.1 8 1
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 cretters in Corpus

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Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
glet, an a lock o ither funny cretters. Alice went furst, an the hal on page 24
hocht tae hirsel, "A wish the cretters wudnae bae es easy offendet!" on page 50
tae hirsel, "the wye aal the cretters argie. It's enuch tae pit yer on page 57
ur wur ten o thim, an the wee cretters come jumpin happily alang, ha on page 79
in it wus haes turn; an baith cretters hid thir dials in thir paas. on page 97
Also on pages 103, 124
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