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The word 'matty'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mattyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus21.5704
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 206 63 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.1 4 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 matty in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
College that Minnie's brither Matty attendit ilkie day, unless it
rae a ploocut. Wi her brither Matty, her mither wis kindness hers
inno her dwaum. 'Yer brither Matty's the youngest loon in the ba
cotton peenie, an wyted while Matty her brither, aulder nur her b
Minnie's brither Matty gaed tae a braw schule in the
63 matches

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
@RTG_Podcast Matty Kennedy got tae be a possibil(2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
urned aroond ah wis faced wae Matty Johnson who we hud nicknamed on page 20
ories. Thoan conversation wae Matty talkin aboot the auld days - on page 22

4 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
'A thought Matty n Div.wur the tap kiddies?!' on page 5
ear elder anaw. His big brur, Matty, is the tap man doon there. Y on page 18

2 matches

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