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The word 'oats'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
oatsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus11.53717
ORK - Orkney 89.4 9 5
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.8 5 2
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 2
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 131.1 10 1
LAL - General Central 4 3 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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of oats in Corpus

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Orkney

Miller, Alison Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Orkney, poetry
Tendan the baests, coaxan the oats tae grow, on page 42

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
stack-yaird and gobbled doon oats bi the pund on page 16
barley and gold, sun-ripened oats, on page 37
I nivver sew me wild oats and that's the gospel truth. on page 39
Regurgitated oats and stuff bestrewed the widde on page 57
. He faithered bairns - wild oats bore fruit - nine within wed on page 77

5 matches

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The haeds o oats hing low, rattlan like tubula on page 95

1 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The oats sing; the barley pops. on page 111

1 matches

Hollinrake, Fran Flett Assipattle and the Mester Stoorworm, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
tyer a land o plenty, noo: wi oats and yows and kye (hid's cattl
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
nostrils. 'Ye'll get a feed o oats fin the kirk's scaled, an a f
hem their brakkfaist o hey an oats. Aince the shelties trotted a
2 matches

Mid Northern B

Bowie, Tyler Stookie, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
a list. I wis needin porridge oats, breed, butter, milk and a fa
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
fermer oats tae feed his hens, sometimes
tae feed his hens, sometimes oats were bruised (Squashed) for
2 matches

@cligeey tweeted
@aduncan59 Fermer liked his oats min(2020)

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
nicht, ye kin, pittin' in the oats tae soak fur the parritch, or on page 4

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - A Day Weel Spent, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
says A whan the Scotts Porage Oats factory hove in sicht juist a on page 125

2 matches

Fleemin, Sandy A Day Weel Spent, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
says I whan the Scotts Porage Oats factory hove in sicht juist a
"Ay, Scotts Porage Oats, Wisemans Dairies," he lauchs
2 matches

West Central

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
fer me. Oh, ah sowed ma wild oats, bit ah got caught in the end
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Till Houletgless an the Soond o Money, (The Scores 2018) Central, prose
meenits! Wir ye awa sawn the oats yersel?”
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
porridge oats, wi love bein thi underdogs on page 120

1 matches

@d_anderson878 tweeted
Brose is oats an aw. https://t.co/zcXZ2IFFM(2020)

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ohn wad whiles tak a firlot o oats for a cairrier's fee raither on page 43
ld him a guid crap o tatties, oats an bear. The grazins wad tak on page 50
irch an April, sawin thaim wi oats an bear in Mey while still th on page 55
le fare o kail brose, milk an oats, an bannocks. Come Mey, when on page 56
eft, tae mak a gruel o bluid, oats an bear. By that furst wintet on page 63
Also on pages 72
10 matches

General Central

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
mon auld yin... ye've had yer oats - an it's mair than I've had on page 17

2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
ps were growed, wi barley and oats maist common amang the types
1 matches

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