A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'autocorrect'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
autocorrectOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.586
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
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
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 4
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 autocorrect in Corpus

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Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
@sheltielisa Yis, autocorrect hates me as weel! Such a pest(2021)

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Fa’s Doris loon?! #autocorrect https://t.co/Flyb6kzgYl(2019)

General Central

@ionafyfe tweeted
Hae a keek* autocorrect disna like the Doric ??(2020)

@IshbelMcF tweeted
ievin tweets in Scots leid wi autocorrect. Though, ye cin yaise SwiftKe(2018)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
creive ae Scots SpellCheck or Autocorrect program!(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
y'? Or the wird 'get'? Or has autocorrect changed yer question? (2019) twitter link