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The word 'owt'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
owtOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1106
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 49.9 4 2
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.7 3 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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of owt in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Dodie's Phenomenal Pheesic, (Shetland For Wirds 2008) Shetland, weans
ptied hit inta da pan. ‘Dat owt ta wish her belly fine an cle
1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Rin throu the jungle, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
e the hoose cried oot, “Get owt of here, what on earth do you
1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
ull ae wee wheels. Never kens owt that's gaun oan. Ay got a wee on page 1

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
h times-tables disnae tell is owt: let's try Geography. Lundin on page 18
e, an 00've nae time tae wash owt atween brews." on page 71

2 matches

The Westender Ins and oots, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
ow ee spelt eet? Ee could get owt tae fit abody in there. A lot
whae arrive wunnae contribute owt. Bit then a dar say, juist li
2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
t loud. No that ye's paid for owt. Ye's were weel seen tae that on page 76

1 matches

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
mean – a wisnae a nancy or owt like that. An oddball. No sur
tae find work. No that he got owt tae start wi’, but before l
2 matches

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