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The word 'peats'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
peatsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus15.45011
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 16.3 5 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 102 23 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 209.7 16 2
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 176.7 2 1
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 peats in Corpus

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Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
tan - lemonade an feels! Her peats is on page 23

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Goodall, Phyllis J. Cabrach Days, (timberford.demon 2000) Doric, poetry
he win that dried the Cabrach peats
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
nnie, tho, likit fine tae cut peats ower at Tully's, fur Isie wis
The lowe wis biggit heich wi peats cut frae Steenhillock's share
ames lowp up atween the broon peats crummlin inno the aisse an sm
3 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
grate that only nott a puckle peats tae get it lowin first thing
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
ten bags o sticks, ten bags o peats each. Ere
wi a pail o peats an a pail o sticks in their h
sticks an peats, as he looked back ower his b
y pence for a bag o sticks an peats (Ey hid been echty pence afor
4 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
. This wifie bocht ten bags o peats
peats he wis tryin tae spread were
peats were jist brakin, he wis jist
appeared an started tae cast peats Jonsar gaed awa
spreadin peats." Weel the mannie jist shook
17 matches

Chapman, Henry , (Facebook 2018) Doric, poetry
Peats and pailens and stracht dreel
Fin he casted peats and he “bulled” the bank,
2 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 117, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
the, the kirn to kirn, an the peats to big? Glaikit giglets! Do y
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
In Autumn the dipping, an peats tae stack, on page 16

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
he wis aye there tae fetch in peats, or brek the ice on the burn on page 43
lang an hard intae the lowin peats an said nocht. Isabel sat on on page 44
ad nae shuiner stertit cuttin peats when they heard a clink o bri on page 45
e a guid mornin's darg at the peats; an wi the chance o a rainsto on page 48
eces; cutting an dryin winter peats on the muir aa simmer, an cai on page 55
Also on pages 56, 61, 62, 70, 72, 74, 75
15 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
In Autumn the dippin, an peats tae stack,
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
r kye an ither bease, cuistin peats an wunnin eldin fur thair fyr
1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
The saft scad frae the peats, quait on page 10
The peats' quait low, the week's saft l on page 17

2 matches

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