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The word 'cottars'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cottarsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.8224
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 62.1 19 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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 cottars in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
he roadside far the neep-park cottars bedd. Like aa fermers, her fa
ey war kent as 'the neep-park cottars', fur neeps grew weel in yon
hey nor corn. Faith, even the cottars thrived better there, fur wee
The cottars that bedd there eenoo war the
he McPhails, the Troot Wallie cottars war swattin the fleas frae th
19 matches

General Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
a curn o cottars an a puckle tacksmen on page 29

1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Chronikil o Scotland (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-3-7) Central, prose
tribbil ahaun. Oniegates, the cottars wes that leised on sei-in Ado on page 43

1 matches

General Central

Armstrong, Kate Lallans 58 - Herman Und Dorothea, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
ensample tae burgesses an tae cottars, on page 43

1 matches

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