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The word 'watterin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
watterinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.91611
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 11.9 9 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 88.3 1 1
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 watterin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
a treat, thocht Betty, er een watterin es she turnt the page. Here t on page 82

1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
O Yir nae wrang. My moo's bin watterin efter seein iss pic i ither d(2019)

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
s haunds aw chappit, his e'en watterin', aye an' Ah kin fine his fee on page 11

1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Watterin aw that grows unner its reign on page 13

1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
fair conflummixt, gaed for a watterin-can o caller watter, an syne on page 31

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
against the gless, his mooth watterin like a spicket. Aw the time, on page 6
wa hauns. WONKAS MUCKLE MOOTH WATTERIN FUDGIE MALLAE DELICHT, it sai on page 32
'Wonka's Muckle Mooth Watterin Fudgie Mallae Delicht!' yowle on page 33
msel ... he wid buy wan mooth-watterin bar o chocolate and eat it aw on page 50
'Yin Wonka's Muckle Mooth Watterin Fudgie Mallae Delicht,' he sa on page 51
Also on pages 52
6 matches

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
d the bairns, the maist mooth-watterin feast, a purvey o sappie cree on page 48

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Makkin a muckle o a mickle, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ell ye naething is mair mooth watterin tae hungry bairns than the wa
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
ir smirr, a wee sint dicht an watterin amang a waefu routh o daicent on page 77

1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
norary bottles a year, an the watterin jug an the story aboot hoo Jo(2020)

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James The Lade, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
Frae the bank-fiel tae the watterin bay cut ooty the broo behin B
1 matches

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