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The word 'twit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
twitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.586
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of twit in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Ye're a gypit aul twit, for nae maitter fit on page 15

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ee Sunti Claus at the Pairty! Twit Twa! https://t.co/z8ZY6xWMNv(2018)

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
fae a random "lassie" on this twit thing & then sent me a bunch (2018)
l manage tae speck never mind twit or is that tweet! 8 pints doo(2019)
fit like a’body! Bin aff ma twit fer a while as his nithing ta(2020)

General Central

McNulty, Victoria Flit, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
Twit wit laiden musings
1 matches

@FaetheRye tweeted
hen Ah wis wee. Ma mither (no Twit, not 'either'??) wis a London (2022) twitter link

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
Twit twos an whussles ris frae the on page 2

1 matches

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