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The word 'gutters'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
guttersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3117
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of gutters in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ch Place, it sweeled doon the gutters, it turned the cassies near b
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ish guts fit drappit frae the gutters' knives. The weemin wir booed
k. He plytered on, by lauchin gutters an fish porters. The sang gae
trition larries. The fish the gutters rived apairt war speecially b
an easier made a feel o. The gutters, tho, luikit oot fur Jed, as
4 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
he trenches and some sotter o gutters they proved tae be. It wiz a
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
Icicles hingin fae the frozen gutters; ice plaistered tae the waa. on page 29

1 matches

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
@LouiseNicol1 gutters awye!(2013)

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
id see him sliding down intae gutters via a thin slice in a drain.
1 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 87 - The Neep Lantern, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Central, prose
boot tae plowter in throu the gutters whan A seen a wee copper weer on page 22

1 matches

General Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
, up ta tha oxters in glar an gutters tha day! Gye hanny tae hay a (2021) twitter link