Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'wattie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

wattie	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	8.1	26	11
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	9.8	3	2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	7.7	3	3
WCE - West Central	27.6	6	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	5.3	4	2
SEA - South East (Borders)	99.8	8	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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of wattie in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
- Willie an Jimmy Peerie, an Wattie Esson, him wi the muckle lugs
er heard afore. Bi then, tho, Wattie Esson's face wis chakk white,
2 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@BrewdogNews @Wattiejwattie Wattie been clipin again?(2019)

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
An sweer at Sir Wattie Raleigh iviry time I hae a dr on page 160

1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
The year whan Wattie Scott brocht oot The Bride o on page 12

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
fur Ballantyne wes a nevoy o Wattie Scott’s prenters at war dyv
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 75, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
"Wattie 's laddie?"
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
rowthie life, an his laddie, Wattie, like aw yung men, wants ti t on page 138
k uimor, whan he tells us hou Wattie at first cairries a hie heid, on page 139

5 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
ro edeition o the warks o Sir Wattie Scott. It runs ti 263 pages i
1 matches

General Central

Eagle, Andy Lallans 67 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
Wattie Scott brocht the Trossachs an on page 65

3 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
Click here tae access 'Whar's Wattie?', a Scots language resource (2018) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
asley fur kens hou lang? Auld Wattie Tamson, whae wis deed afore m
n wunnin hey an sic lik. Auld Wattie wis ae tallentit fiddler an w
an whan ma muther wis young; Wattie played fur the
tin things tae say aboot Auld Wattie Tamson an ithers (sei A, page
147 / 153). Yid Tamson, ain o Wattie ’s grandsons, serred his tym
8 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
by Wattie's Nets, the Needle's Ee, Torr on page 11

1 matches