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The word 'prittas'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
prittasOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6125
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)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 356.9 10 3
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 56.9 2 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of prittas in Corpus

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Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Doonby tha prittas fiel A stapped - on page 16
Doonby tha prittas fiel A stapped on page 19
They filled up a prittas sack, on page 21
O thon prittas sack o deid jaa banes, on page 22

4 matches

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Prittas. Aas quate noo, nae millies on page 1
es whan tha blicht cum on tha prittas. on page 2
rden. Thar wus twathie rigs o prittas, scallions, peas, beans, kerr on page 16

3 matches

Cromie, Willie Doon tha Wal Raa, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2024 ISBN: 978-1739905620) Ulster - Ballywalter, prose
erin in a pot on tha hab, tae prittas needin brayin or a bowle o pi
nt o us, A wus lukkin fur tha prittas tae pit in it. Lucky eneuch t
Whuther it was prittas or parrich or pinaida
3 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
Stick tae prittas an soda. Nae pizza or haggis (2014) twitter link

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
@e_millionaros :) sometimes “prittas” , elsewhere “purties”(2020)