A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'shotty'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shottyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.553
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 shotty in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Wilson, Katie Becus a hae a sister a hae a friend, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Buckie, prose
ed off! Yi divna even ask for shotty either, ah just see yi wee em
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
“Wad ye like a shotty o ma new magnifeein glaiss?
me’t then, an ye’ll get a shotty o ma glaiss,” quo Katie.
2 matches

Aberdeen

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
the radio wifie tried ae last shotty at winnin throw tae him.
1 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 winnirt if he'd gotten a shotty on ony o the donkeys, bit did on page 17

1 matches

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