A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'groats'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
groatsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.555
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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 groats in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
ortened tae o' (as in John o' Groats). Hoosumivver, in Shaetlan ap on page 47

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Fae Gretna Green tae John O' Groats That's ristit Mary Queen O Sc on page 15

1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Whaur we cam fae: the Pechts, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
Pentland Firth aff John O’ Groats, wi Pent bein anither name fo
1 matches

West Central

Kay, Billy Time for Reflection, (archive2021.parliament.scot 2022) Central, government
ots fae Maidenkirk tae Johnny Groats and ayont, that ye represent,
1 matches

General Central

@billykayscot tweeted
ots fae Maidenkirk tae Johnny Groats, tak a wee brek fae aw yer sc(2020)