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The word 'watterie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
watterieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.584
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 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
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of watterie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Just added the Doric word Watterie to our A-Z listing. Div ye ke(2014)
i' these posts whilst on the watterie!(2014)
Div ye iver lean ower the watterie bowl an then yer glasses fa d(2016)
ie is aboot wi the wifies new watterie - ah putten a licht in!! htt(2017)
aat ah need tae ging tae the watterie fur a sharn aifter the NHS ki(2020)

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
waidgin a blade that haes a watterie leim.
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
nocht on airth but the dreich watterie snocher on page 18

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
muived, silence swayed an twa watterie een rippled lik buoys. "Oot y on page 1

1 matches

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