A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'twatt'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
twattOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.273
ORK - Orkney 49.7 5 1
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
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 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 twatt in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Lands o Twatt, (Brisk Northerly 2018) Orkney, blog
ult o its own, the district o Twatt has become the most ridiculed
hey were being posted tae the Twatt Aerodrome. Nooadays, English
n selfies wae the arrow o the Twatt roadsign aimed at their grinn
Kirkwall capitalise, flogging Twatt mugs and t-shirts tae ignoran
t experience o the district o Twatt is as a novice tenant fermer.
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Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
bes hae a sponsored cycle fae Twatt tae Clatt! (2020) twitter link

General Central

@billykayscot tweeted
n history a Twat is coming to Twatt. https://t.co/KufaE8V0VL(2020)