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The word 'ratty'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
rattyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.273
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of ratty in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
o ma hard-eamed siller fir a ratty crack-craalers!" on page 14

1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
young schemey lassie, her wee ratty-lookin boyfriend on page 5

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
but he's awready gata thick, ratty moustache. on page 7

2 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
lopin yet, but he's gat a wee ratty moustache. on page 24
es oot a dictionary that's as ratty as his moustache. Wee post-it on page 25
phical thirteen-year-old wi a ratty moustache, kin see the future on page 54

3 matches

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