A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'scotty'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
scottyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.7158
ORK - Orkney
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 22.2 5 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 25.1 4 1
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 scotty in Corpus

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Shetland

Cumming, John Da Whillie, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, prose
wan tae wir mark, dey wir twa Scotty traalers dere already, so we
1 matches

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Aye,Scotty wis an Aiberdeen loon! https:(2019)

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
@AberdeenFC Fars Scotty Wright?(2020)

@daleser23 tweeted
@1990_Scotty scotty my lip is still sare fae fan (2013)
wa anoo workin the nightshift scotty. Mental(2013)
cotty nah. Nae a compy man me scotty(2013)
1990_Scotty how was golf iday scotty?(2013)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
." Anither poem cried "Ma Wee Scotty Dug!" bi Jenny Brunton in the
1 matches

West Central

Steele, Gregor When Scotty said “Scunner”, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
When Scotty said “Scunner”
Richt up tae the time when Scotty is born,
2 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
kin’ beside him, wrang oot. Scotty, a died in the wool techno-ph
as an’ what was he doin’? Scotty explained then received the r
RIP, to Captain Scotty,
That Scotty telt us wis the tap,
4 matches

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
onnellyesque beard growth, no Scotty dug moustache & nae rivening (2020)