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The word 'dorts'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dortsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.585
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 3
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 1.3 1 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 dorts in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Bit, in spite o dorts and tantrums, we aal love him on page 14
hen, ither times, he taks the dorts and he caas a spade a spade! on page 55

2 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
start wi da Lory, at took da dorts apon her at da lang an da len on page 25
is overly wye." An he took da dorts an raise an guid ower ta da i on page 113

2 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
dem ony budder. Jonah took da dorts. He said ta da Loard, 'I shoo on page 71
an nivir taks da dorts. on page 165

2 matches

Watt, Valerie Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: A Hamefarin hero, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
t wi him tae lift him oot his dorts.
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Black Cuddy, (Scottish Book Trust 2019) Central, prose
spiered. But they aw took the dorts, like she'd fund them oot tel on page 2

1 matches

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