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The word 'torry'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
torryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5168
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 39.9 9 4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 torry in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
gid them tae a wifie fae the Torry An she's liked them better th on page 15

1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@juniperquineabz Canna beat a Torry quine. Eesed ti love ga'an ti(2019)
od Michty, last time I wis at Torry Battery wi a quine she teen a(2020)
ger I wint oot wi a quine fae Torry. Didni work oot but she wis s(2020)

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
She cam hame tae Torry latchie kine een evein and he on page 176
She cam hame tae Torry latchie kine een evein and he on page 202

2 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
nnydee72 Sherrene? At's nae a Torry quine I'd wager!(2016)

@cligeey tweeted
@LeftPeggers Torry holiday min(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
@HiddenAberdeen a Plague in Torry? Fit's this aboot? If any pla(2016)
ir arm and fag in their moo! #torry(2016)
ma heed thinks it woke up in Torry nae Fittie! Hid so muckle pla(2017)
ert & masel went o'er tae the Torry battery side o' the docks wee(2017)

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
l1314 Nae a Tory Quine just a Torry Quine. As it should be in lif(2020)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ayed til ‘um, “Yer nae ae Torry ir ee, kis
1 matches

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