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The word 'scrattin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
scrattinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1104
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 29.4 9 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of scrattin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
yer plate. Nae snuffin, nae scrattin, nae riftin, nae far - " | on page 53

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
aff the dirt track; brunches scrattin it wir faces as wi gid faarer on page 44

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
n a reed baallgoon wis sittin scrattin awa it a chello. on page 29
backgrun, an the soun o folk scrattin awa oan wee bitties o paper, on page 40
it wisna fir me, ye'd aye bi scrattin awa wi a pincil. An at's anit on page 50

3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
he back o the class, Isie wis scrattin oot her ain version o't wi a
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ush and Lizzie could hear the scrattin as she tried tae claw her wye
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
shlin an raxxin an flechin an scrattin, an a dirdin o teenie-weenie
scrattin o Deirdre’s horns alang her
2 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 84 - Jamie’s Day Oot, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
Jamie, scrattin awa at his curly pow, gowped on page 42

1 matches

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