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The word 'sellt'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
selltOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.23419
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
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 21 2 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.3 3 2
WCE - West Central 39.9 9 1
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 13.1 10 9
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 sellt in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
John sellt da hoose tae Mary on page 84

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Angels Ten, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
could find the wifie that hid sellt ma the jaicket. By good luck
1 matches

Aberdeen

Lawrie, Alistair Northwords Now 45 - The Win, (Northwords Now 2024) Doric - Peterhead, prose
years syne twis his folk had sellt it an noo the National Trust
eety they’d ivver let it be sellt. But that had been Peem. The
2 matches

General Northern

Mitchell, Rhona Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Wye it Wis, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
she'd see the piggy shop. It sellt beef an stuff an they wid buy on page 16

1 matches

(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
e walkin? Dinna tell me ye've sellt the naig? Did ye finnd the ma on page 48

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 100, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
i the buik an the CD noo bein sellt separate-like insteid o bein
separate-like insteid o bein sellt thegither, the price for ilka
2 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
hud been mince, and he hadnae sellt eneuch manky second-haund mot on page 32
than he wis this morn. He hus sellt nae less than five motors, ev on page 44
r and seeventy-eicht pund and sellt fur wan thoosand four hunner on page 45
pund and ah sellt it fur nine hunner and ninety on page 46
there jist the ither day. He sellt me a motor. Near new. Only do on page 79
Also on pages 151
9 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Lallans 82 - The Banes o Alba, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
laun was creatit tae be sellt on page 32

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
l it fell apairt. It had been sellt on fae ae oil exploration out on page 47
tson, the ironmonger that had sellt them the pistols in the first on page 107

2 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
'Cruikedbank is no sellt, Mither. It's still oors, but on page 79

1 matches

General Central

Love, Rowena M. Lallans 82 - Hame tae Dunbar Harbour, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
whaur Auld Bob sellt the day's tak. on page 41

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 104 - Whaur Div Ye Belang Tae?, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
years even whan a subject wis sellt on an chenged hauns. This wis on page 52

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
charnley's sellt the boy a dummy on page 3

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
An Luckie Middlemist wha sellt his dram on page 7

1 matches

Robertson, James The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Lassie in the Snaw, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
is feart tae gang hame. She'd sellt haurdly ony matches, and she on page 50
But the wee lassie that sellt the matches didnae feel the c on page 55

2 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - A Mass In Scots For Saint Andrae, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
On the nicht he was sellt for siller on page 97

1 matches

Perrie, Walter Lallans 73 - The Tod an the Stoat, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
has sellt us aa for pounds an pence." on page 54

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
In the end ah sellt ma dinner tickets tae big Mag
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
west Fife in the 1950s an he sellt thaim. They were cried Aiberd(2020)

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, newspaper
in 2004 - the guidebeuk isna sellt oot yit - an ye'll can see a on page 5

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
we've been sellt tae console us an mak us The on page 77

1 matches

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