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The word 'rusty'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
rustyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.92319
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 18 7 4
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 3
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 2
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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of rusty in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
@RedSquirrelsinW @brsquirrel Rusty, they say rooshtie roon aboot (2020) twitter link

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
y fifties, packed themsels on rusty fishing boats and heided aff
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Mr Rusty's here, so dinna be rude on page 154

1 matches

(South) East Central

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
n oan the front green. Muckle rusty cubes an con nectors. They lo on page 7

1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
Every wan ae these auld rusty railings is tapped wae a nast
nt doon hard ontae wan ae the rusty railing spikes. In a movie, t
2 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
that every wan ae these auld rusty railins is tapped wae a nasty
doon haird oantae wan ae they rusty railin spikes. In a filum, th
2 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
examinin ma tool kit. Fae the rusty pair ae pliers doon tae the b
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
rtainly an improvement on the rusty mess it was before - so what (2021) twitter link

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Gleamin fences, rusty railins, on page 94

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
hing that ah am, includin the rusty wirkins o ma lang-lown tongue
1 matches

Sands, Finn THE GHAISTLY FITBAW MATCH, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
tadium. He pushed through the rusty turnstyles. He sneakily crept
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
loomit ower him. It had great rusty reid teeth an airms like tree on page 66
es writhin in seek. Its great rusty ted tecth were dreepin wi som on page 69

2 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
n eventually e’en some auld rusty tuils, which he cleant up an
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
The rusty hinges fae the gate intae the
1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
ill starns will be wells wi a rusty pulley. The haill starns will on page 88

1 matches

@WhenDidADidny tweeted
ta been rustier than some mad rusty hing n played fuckin woefully (2018) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Yer grey and rusty flaking metals on page 34

1 matches

@jamie_ginger tweeted
Some rusty folk oot golfin today. Just a(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
at dailygaun an aipen tha oul rusty yett ye'll see forenent ye th on page 8

1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
ews an things an the odd auld rusty spring, on page 10

1 matches

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