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The word 'potter'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
potterOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.83212
ORK - Orkney 79.5 8 1
SHD - Shetland
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
SEC - (South) East Central 12.7 5 3
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 22.8 5 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 15.9 12 6
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 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 potter in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
nd oot aboot the Potters. Mrs Potter wis Mrs Dursley’s sister, b
kan … na, he wis bein daft. Potter wisno such an unusual name. H
here were a lok o folk called Potter who haed a son called Harry.
her he’d heard the neem ‘Potter’. He decided he didna dare.
rumour is that Lily an Cheemo Potter are – are – that thur dei
8 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
ike in the art class, oan the potter's wheel. I like that. The onl on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ke Albus Dumbledore fae Harry Potter but ah ken fae personal exper on page 125
e tae aw the loners and Harry Potter wannabees. But ah'm here tae on page 185

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
ns' buiks aheid o baith Harry Potter an Walt Disney's High School
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
amour, juist like oot o Harry Potter, tae chynge me intae some pui
1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Radge Against the Machine: Deid Wirds, Deid Warlds, an Why Scots Maitters, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
's gallus translation o Harry Potter, that threw doon ilka rule ab
1 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
sley. Does that make me Harry Potter? on page 7

5 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
The younger yins had Beatrix Potter on page 159

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
sley. Does that make me Harry Potter? on page 4
rld o guid, but ah love Harry Potter, and if that specky bugger is on page 17
d ah take oot ma copy o Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. S on page 18
in wan week. Nought but Harry Potter hus captured ma imagination l on page 27

4 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
POTTER Hame tae my bed? If you seen
1 matches

Wilson, Rab A centre of undeemous excellence fir Scots leid, (The National 2017) Central, newspaper
Tale o Peter Kinnen (Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit) in Scots, a
1 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
A’m wantin fir Yule is Harry Potter in Scots. Ta. https://t.co/HD(2017)

@LairnScots tweeted
Beatrix Potter, wha spent time in Dunkeld, c (2021) twitter link
irns intae Scots, like 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stane': (2020) twitter link
ken the Scots wirds fir Harry Potter-isms? 'Quidditch' is Bizzumba (2018) twitter link
here tae find oot aboot Harry Potter translatit intae Scots! https (2017) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
A kent aboot the potter, dauncin by his table o pots. on page 3

1 matches

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