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The word 'zat'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
zatOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6126
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 4
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 zat in Corpus

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West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Kirsty zat your boyfriend, said ned numm on page 169

3 matches

Glasgow

Smith, Elaine C. The Glasgow Gruffalo, (Itchy Coo 2017 ISBN: 978-1785300592) Central - Glasgow, weans
"Zat right?" sez the Gruffalo, try on page 17
"Zat a hoot Ah hear, fae they tree on page 19

2 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
ZAT RIGHT? on page 20

1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
Whit? Zat no discrimination? Whit aboot(2019)
Twitter ya barstewards.... “Zat”(2019)
Zat you ant??? https://t.co/Zg4d5(2020)
@ClydeFC Is zat no pretty basic? ??(2019)

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
@RobertMiggins Oh ma goad. Zat thae beasties ye wir talking (2020)

@raiphsays tweeted
annae RT! Oany quote tweet :( Zat a new hing?(2020)

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