A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ads'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
adsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7126
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of ads in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
turnin't up it the Classified Ads. on page 48
article aneth the Classified Ads. "It's aa aboot a new datin c on page 49
think wi'll jist stick te the ads," said Ronnie, takkin back th on page 50

3 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
a car ~ if Ah put ye in Scot-Ads, Ah dinna think Ah'd get muck on page 69

1 matches

General Northern

@AMaxwell54 tweeted
e here!! Ah hid forgotten iss ads.. Michty me. Ah cannae stop l (2018) twitter link
e here!! Ah hid forgotten iss ads.. Michty me. Ah cannae stop l (2018) twitter link

(South) East Central

McFarlane, Ishbel Time tae mairch oot o oor climate comfort zones, (The National 2019) Central, newspaper
is adverts an aw – targeted ads learn me whit the algorithm h
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
He pit ads in ivry magazine on page 21

1 matches

General Ulster

Ni Chuilin, Caral Roadin furtae Bring Forrits an Graith tha ULSTER-SCOTCH Leid, Heirskip an Cultur, (Mannystrie o Fowkgates, Airts an Aisedom 2015) Ulster, government
hale warl, thair's a wheen róads it's weel oor pairt tae fordà on page 5

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
man, 'Gang oot ïntae tha róads an loanins; dïnnae tak "Na" on page 95

1 matches

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