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The word 'watt'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wattOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus18.76016
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 3
GLA - Glasgow 16.3 3 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 162.2 13 1
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)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 102.5 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 197 6 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 454.2 25 2

Occurrences of watt in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
oo du's laandit dysel wi Alec Watt's bastard bairn, draggit dyse on page 22
n ae thing, I dunna want Alec Watt's brat wi its shitey nappies on page 23

2 matches

Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
(itherwise it'll be unner at watt(2020)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
your about as bright as a 30 watt bulb - you need medication l (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

Bremner, Stewart Haud Yer Wheesht?, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
Baird inventin the telly, or Watt's steam ingine, gowf, the tel
1 matches

Smith, Jamie William Playfair: faither o data visualisation, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
first twa editions, at Jeames Watt’s insistence,2 includit tra
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
m pairt athoot his fivehunner-watt grin. She dashed back tae pic
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
James Watt says "Aye" on page 40
James Black, James Watt inventit the modern warld on page 91
The genius o Watt and Hunter, on page 93

3 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Mistress Watt's Baudrons on page 22

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - Review Lang Syne in the East Neuk o Fife, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
ve intil it aa here, but John Watt sings 'Pittenweem Jo', 'John on page 54

1 matches

Puchowski, James Aiths an Affirmations, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
Maureen Watt (Aiberdeen Sooth an North Kin
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
job fur ae wheen ‘ear. Auld Watt’s son, Mark Tamson, bade i
it Bob Tamson, anither o Auld Watt Tamson’s sons, bade wi his
n ma maimorie sers mei richt, Watt Davies wis
rdson tractor up Borth’ick. Watt wis keen on
me, whan dain ae hey-tyme fur Watt Davies it Girnwud; hei hed be
13 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
udin @PeterChapmanMSP Maureen Watt @alasdairallan @EmmaHarperMSP(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Wattér buits, dunchers, tairtan s on page 21
t tha beck en o tha yeir, tha Wattér Boord wus pittin in pipes on page 25

2 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
But sautie wattérs aye aboot Fur tides jaist on page 25
Brocht tae tha wattér side on page 51
Lake wattèr Am teemed oot; ma banes Aa on page 64
ndations o tha same He on tha wattérs lay. on page 69
Cum doon, an troubl't wattérs rin. on page 71

6 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
A'm baptisin yis wi wattèr fer tae show yis hae repen on page 3
wur castin a neyt ïntae tha wattèr, fer the' wrocht at tha fà on page 4
roak. Tha rain cum doon, tha wattèr ris, an tha wuns got up an on page 8
ale lock o thaim deed ïn tha wattèr. on page 9
"A'm onlie baptisin wi wattèr. But yin'll cum that wull on page 74
Also on pages 77, 82, 83, 93, 98, 99, 106
24 matches

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
nn-pooert flatches fur haitin wattèr
1 matches

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