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Use in varieties of Scots

twit Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 1 7.5 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences82 5 0 0 0 1
Number of authors6 2 3 1

Occurrences of twit in Corpus

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Central

McNulty, Victoria Flit, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
Twit wit laiden musings
1 matches

@FaetheRye tweeted
hen Ah wis wee. Ma mither (no Twit, not 'either'??) wis a London (2022) twitter link

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Ye're a gypit aul twit, for nae maitter fit on page 15

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ee Sunti Claus at the Pairty! Twit Twa! https://t.co/z8ZY6xWMNv(2018) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
fae a random "lassie" on this twit thing & then sent me a bunch (2018) search twitter
l manage tae speck never mind twit or is that tweet! 8 pints doo(2019) search twitter
fit like a’body! Bin aff ma twit fer a while as his nithing ta(2020) search twitter

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
Twit twos an whussles ris frae the on page 2

1 matches

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