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The word 'scatter'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
scatterOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.21412
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
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 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 116.3 2 1
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 scatter in Corpus

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Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gallows Ha - Recipe for a Good Storm, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
a scatter o shooers on page 26

1 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
a scatter o shooers on page 52

1 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
an scatter on page 18

1 matches

Shetland

Williamson, Christie Continuous at sea defence, (damagnifyingless.wordpress.com 2015) Shetland, poetry
scatter da thieves an murderers
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
t therapy I could use. He’d scatter bits o carrots aboot the flee
1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie William Playfair: faither o data visualisation, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
y o them, inventin aw but the scatter plot. He unnerstuid that stat
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Weans scatter fae a lamp post in aw directi
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
e the west an the south . . . scatter doun tae Derval an on tae Sor on page 36

1 matches

General Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ial management o Unity wis ‘scatter-brained’. That’s as maybe
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
A few men wantit tae scatter but Cameron wis hain nane o i

@billykayscot tweeted
Hiya. We cried it a scatter an it wis when the bride left(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
sal Growin auld nae seeds tae scatter? Never! on page 4

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
towls thon bell till scatter oot. on page 14
Thoughts they scatter til combine on page 20

2 matches

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