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The word 'bute'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
buteOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.61210
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 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 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 5
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 bute in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Shepherd, Robbie Harknin tae the braw souns, (John Benjamin 2000) Doric, newspaper
n lookin ower tae the Kyles o Bute - wis tae see at first haun
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Stuart Hoosie on the Isle i' Bute. https://t.co/tlwiw78rht(2018)

General Northern

@daleser23 tweeted
@rossandrew_ fuck off ye bute(2014)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
Perth and Kinross, Argyll and Bute an Heiland Cooncil areas. Thi
1 matches

West Central

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
whair roon bey the Kyles a’ Bute.
1 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
ilit tae Scotland an bidit in Bute whaur Ketil wis buriet. on page 14

1 matches

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
he Isle o Tiree in Argyll and Bute. on page 6
, the Heilands and Argyll and Bute, fur whilk I generallie favou on page 39

2 matches

Puchowski, James Aiths an Affirmations, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
Mike Russell (Argyll an Bute, SNP)
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
nning the show an nae just in Bute Hoose. So last nicht Boris wi(2020)
The winna let him dae that in Bute House whan he taks up residen(2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
@McpTrishy I suggested Bute House tae shine a light on oo (2022) twitter link

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