A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'buttered'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
butteredOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.81916
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 4
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 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of buttered in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
An buttered the doorsteps that he likes. on page 72

1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
e, rost turkey, toffee an hot buttered tost) so shö very shön feen on page 13

1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
roast turkey, toffee, an hot buttered toast), she soon finished id on page 13

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
l aware Fit side his breid is buttered on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
it's brakfast time: porndge, buttered toast an straaberry jam an a on page 45

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
r coorse, fur their breid wis buttered on baith sides. Neist year, f
His wife, Molly wis roon's a buttered bap, tho fit wis fat an fit w
2 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
lfae o tay wi a plate o fresh buttered scones an hame made cheese. L
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
Maley Aye, ma playpiece wis a buttered rowie folded in half - fit f (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
l ower cream cakes an freshly buttered scones. on page 37

1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
tae eat it. At hame she'd get buttered toast and strawberry jeely an on page 184
Miss Honey buttered a slice o broon breid and pit on page 223

2 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
Setterday nicht, an some fine buttered breid tae gang wi it - an a on page 67

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
tea! Nae eggs and bacon! Nae buttered toast!' on page 92

1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
oao_kay aipple an peir jam wi buttered, thick, ootside bit toast an (2020)
erday breakfast heiven - hot buttered toast wi twa, aye twa ootside(2020)

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
roast turkey, tablet, an hot buttered toast), she gie sin feeneeshe on page 13

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Tindal, Betty Lallans 73 - Mither, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Hunger keepit at bay wi a buttered scone, on page 58

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
ifted a plate an soda farl an buttered the uneven rigs o the doughie on page 4

1 matches

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