A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'tattered'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tatteredOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.174
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 9.8 4 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 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 tattered in Corpus

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General Northern

Maitland, Andrew Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Auld Mannie, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
i his scruffy white trainers, tattered blue jeans an ower-sized jaik on page 76

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
've goat ae any value is this tattered-lookin watch ma granda left m on page 16
ken?!" As ah sit doon oan ma tattered seat nixt tae on page 74
riday tae sign oan wearin his tattered lookin work bits and clais. A on page 123

3 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
ugh; they’re hingin tae the tattered remnants o decayin privilege
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
o peely-wally skin atween his tattered trooser leg and his black sho on page 25
d the anely decoration on the tattered waws wis a muckle, mingin pen on page 29

2 matches

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