A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'belters'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
beltersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.865
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 belters in Corpus

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(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
mnock/pollok/beith etc - sum belters there - real fitbaw lol (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
huil've goat these, a few big belters. They come firra couple ay mo on page 2

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
She’s caught me some fuckin belters, so she hus. Two ay that Fred
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
‘Fuckin belters man, ah telt ye!’ he sais,
1 matches

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
cted (an hae spake some richt belters..)(2020)

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
e mustae danced tae some pure belters in yer pram hen? (2022) twitter link