Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'witter'

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Use in varieties of Scots

witter	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.9	13	7
ORK - Orkney	9.9	1	1
SHD - Shetland	11.6	2	2
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	5.1	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	3.9	3	1
SEA - South East (Borders)	74.9	6	2
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 witter in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
ves an arbitraetors, ithoot a witter o roon whit wan o the starns on page 74

1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
Wheen, an he wis in datten a witter at he bet a grett piece oot o on page 112

1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
, an da idder ene got ithin a witter wi da rivlin-strings. on page 35

1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
an howpin the choob dinnae witter aa oer the stert on page 34

1 matches

General Central

Aitchison, Craig Lallans 102 - Sea Room and Hunger Stanes, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, poetry
he stramash, whiles the daurk witter swallaed on page 43
Fecht draigin witter, howp the ootbuird on page 44

3 matches

South East (Borders)

The Westender Loupin Salmon, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
un was late this year cos the witter was that low. Hei said that w
cemented ontae eet which the witter tumbles ower and kinda disgui
the slope and intae the white witter at the bottom. Hei was drooki
3 matches

The Westender Ins and oots, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
Vesta. Ee mixed eet up in hot witter and it hed raisins in eet. Ra
1 matches

@jamie_ginger tweeted
emergency whistle, biffy bag, witter proofs. Plenty fluid and food(2020)
wiped oot by the avalanche o witter @antanddec #ericbristowisakeg(2012)