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The word 'butt'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
buttOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.52113
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 10.6 8 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of butt in Corpus

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Shetland

Jamieson, Robert Alan Lallans 58 - Eicht poems bi Robert Alan Jamieson, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
Left owir fæ pæprin butt on page 27

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Tarrarra boomby ae, This is my dying day, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
t as ye could and tae hud the butt o yer rifle ower yer bawsacks
if a bullet did hit yer rifle butt then it widna be neen worse t
gapooch and a shattered rifle butt. Jesus! Thinkin aboot it broc
3 matches

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
ower ten meenits. A tried ta butt in wi a
1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
wummin. Nae friggin hope. The butt end. That's aw he was. on page 1

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
n daein they wuid be made the butt o sic humour as they wuidnae on page 97

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
“Thoo just butt oot, pal,” Bill telt him in
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
t a dunt on the heid frae the butt o a pistol . . . an that's aa on page 61

1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
offerin me the glowin orange butt. on page 46

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
, Granny let me fish a glowin butt oot o hur ashtray. Ah retched on page 26
an animal and tossed a glowin butt intae it as she left. It went on page 39
py and pointin at a cigarette butt. on page 40

3 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
ily an tae kick negativitiy's butt! Happy New Year fae Scotland!(2014)
t had Coaching session and ma butt kicked (not literally) by @Je(2015)
abby interview, and kicked ma butt intae gear! Hope tae be doin (2015)
tch telly.....if no...GET YIR BUTT INTAE GYM?X(2015)

South East (Borders)

Stevenson, Gerda Kilmeny, (Scottish Language Center 2021) Southern - Scottish Borders, prose
, an the gamekeeper swung the butt o his gun at her heid. The mu
1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
e said wile humbly. "A'll naw butt in on yae agane. A dar say th on page 74

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Buttérlumps on page 52

1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
holic "Burn" is a wee river; "butt" mair difficult - bit o grun (2015) twitter link