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The word 'rafters'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
raftersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3118
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 32 3 1
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 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)
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 rafters in Corpus

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Orkney

West, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Smoke swirlan up tae the rafters on page 35

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
near crackin her heid on the rafters ilkie time she beddit, bit he
the hymns gaed richt tae the rafters garrin the hale kirk birr wi
2 matches

Mid Northern B

Dunnett, Nathan The Auld Asylum, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
ld hear wis cushiedoos in the rafters and mice scuttling aboot.
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
roostin in yir rafters on page 71

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
t lazily up throu the twistit rafters an oot a hole in the ruif. Fr on page 22
l wands tae weave an bind the rafters, an support a new theikin o t on page 50
nsteid o swirlin up throu the rafters an yon auld bleck hole in the on page 71

3 matches

General Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
up ma skirt and sclimmed the rafters on page 82

1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
uch, thur quarry is up in the rafters. It's so fuckin auld.(2020)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Yer rafters gaun, reduced tae dust on page 22

1 matches

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