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tweets Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words16.9 21.6 4.5 0 23.2 10.3 17.7
Number of occurrences5442 3 0 4 1 4
Number of authors21 15 2 1 1 2

Occurrences of tweets in Corpus

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Central

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
As their tweets fleg aff on page 92

1 matches

Puchowski, James Frae Norrowa ower the faem, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
en independence supporter. He tweets @puchowskijk
1 matches

Widmann, Thomas The State o Denmark, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
//www.arcofprosperity.org/ an tweets @arcofprosperity
1 matches

Ewen, Allan The Blin Man an the Man Wha Couldna See, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
http://andrewrbarr.com, an he tweets at https://twitter.com/andrew
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
nnies on yer DMs, protect yer tweets like @KirsteenMcG0105 suggest(2020) search twitter
gsaraband Dinnae be daft your tweets remind me there's still some (2020) search twitter
care I smile when I read yer tweets that's enough for me...... Ok(2020) search twitter
offer a translate few of yer tweets back ?? turns oot it wis exac(2020) search twitter
meandtea Have ye seen half ma tweets? Naebody needs to fix their s(2020) search twitter

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
tho, so if you dinnae see any tweets fae me later, it’s cause I’(2020) search twitter

@g_hibby tweeted
:) It was nice receiving the tweets, a lot o' guid peeps oot ther (2023) twitter link
Right, let me attend tae yer tweets. (2022) twitter link
attend tae acknowledging yer tweets.. Can I wish you all a happy, (2022) twitter link
I'm away tae acknowledge yer tweets... (2023) twitter link
just oan tae acknowledge yer tweets, and thank you for them.. ?? (2023) twitter link
and 8 other occurrences.

@jax6754 tweeted
d tae see regular encouraging tweets again tae inspire! Welcome ba(2015) search twitter

@IshbelMcF tweeted
n the difficulties o scrievin tweets in Scots leid wi autocorrect.(2018) search twitter

@billykayscot tweeted
ottish nation. Beware! if the tweets dinnae work, she’ll resort t(2020) search twitter

@DABArbuckle tweeted
lDonaldTrump Wha writes these tweets for ye Donald? They verneer m(2020) search twitter

@bigandymccoll tweeted
y I tried tae share these two tweets wi ye, but it didnae work. D' (2022) twitter link

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
tar_welsh Ya gettin yer funny tweets tae fir wan doon the barras h (2022) twitter link

@LairnScots tweeted
o the resources I used in the tweets below... (2021) twitter link
the resources I yaised in the tweets ablow... https://t.co/GfhBbym (2021) twitter link
Scrieve Scots leid texts an tweets wi @SwiftKey 's app. New upda (2017) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
st shocked n stunned wae thae tweets fae 2 burra lads - hae yous (2021) twitter link
cey stoap it - musta seen ma tweets on here that dun the trick lo (2020) twitter link
ou expect them to do lol your tweets are so funny (2020) twitter link
h01 loving reading both these tweets - how true they are - spot (2020) twitter link
40 years - i have put other tweets on 2 nite about this - its s (2020) twitter link
and 5 other occurrences.

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
- did ye see the state o his tweets? (2022) twitter link

@Franwella tweeted
r hahahaha i've jist seen yer tweets ye minx!(2012) search twitter
bit nae sure if abdy can see tweets i mak on ither pages!(2011) search twitter

Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
profile says they delete all tweets eftir a week ?? https://t.co/(2021) search twitter
er haand I wid say me dialect tweets get mair engagement as me pla(2021) search twitter
decided tae start writin mair tweets in Shetland dialect I'm gaine(2021) search twitter
bearable fae I started writin tweets in dialect.(2021) search twitter

Southern

@cammyrudkin tweeted
on46 div ees pair no reply ti tweets(2012) search twitter

Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
typing and requoting his own tweets. #Fleg(2020) search twitter

@the_gellick tweeted
a quare hantle o #UlsterScots tweets! Aa the best! (2014) twitter link
ybackey be giein us a wheen o tweets in the oul tongue? (2016) twitter link
HurchinHome - new scrievins, tweets, an yarns in the aul Ulster S (2014) twitter link