A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ather'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
atherOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3113
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 18 7 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 ather 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.

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
ma heid, ye see the w'ather's no aye the warst o' the thi on page 21
e like it whan Ah hear that w'ather, an' Ah dinnae kin whar he's on page 22
he fish whan ye can in this w'ather. on page 23
ter an' oot they gan in ony w'ather. They tell me that a wummin t on page 24
s', Ah suppose he meant the w'ather, on page 34

7 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
ooshie ahint the table in the ather neuk o the room, and Hoolet w on page 128
e wis nae first yin, syne the ather aboot it. Ye said "Hullo" and on page 141

3 matches

South West (Galloway)

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
l'ather scratchings on page 38

1 matches

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