Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'aulds'

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Use in varieties of Scots

aulds	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.1	10	8
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central	13.8	3	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	6.7	5	5
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 aulds 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.

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
twa aulds lads the gither. "Noo fit wid
1 matches

(South) East Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
scaud fir a wheen aicht yeir aulds an gart ane ir twa tae pee th
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
there were gey few five-year-aulds wha could dae it. on page 70
y stert the schuil. Five-year-aulds cannae dae that. But Matilda on page 89
y in it. She thinks five-year-aulds are hairy-oobits that huvnae on page 96

3 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
es. Like maist fowerteen-year-aulds, she wis richt-haundit, and t on page 2

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
Wellhill, an... The ten year-aulds cuid aye dae a bit o byrewark on page 17

1 matches

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
kicherin. For sieventeen-year-aulds
1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit The Embra Greement, (Scots Language Centre 2012) Central, government
orrit a caw for 16 an 17 year-aulds tae be comprehendit amang
1 matches

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Inglish, or "properly", as ma aulds wid gae it. But they spo(2020)