A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'dads'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dadsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.91916
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.7 3 1
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)

Occurrences of dads in Corpus

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Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
isode that git's passed on be dads. on page 76

1 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Dads Big Bane alarm clock. on page 45

1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Back tae trowie schul, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
e wir claas afore we heard da dads o da bairns runnin hame. Gutt
1 matches

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ppy Faither’s Day tae aa the dads an grandads fa cherish an lo'(2018)

General Northern

Strachan, Shane Beyond the Sea, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Doric, prose
t the ither end far a group o dads stand aboot in varying shades
The dads shak their heads as their bai
2 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
And the nixt words oot ae ma dads mooth left me paralysed on page 198

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
luff ahent thaim. The souns o dads an yellochs lowdent as the ke
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ts for awe the royals n boris dads a roaster but whae cares - i (2021) twitter link

West Central

Pennie, Len Toast Tae The Daft Days, (Lidl 2020) Central, poetry
and weans, fur mammys and fur dads
1 matches

General Central

Morning, Carey Neeps and Tatties, (self-published 2020) Central, weans
And tattie dads hissed in their tottie weans' on page 15

1 matches

@ionafyfe tweeted
@AidanMo0die me mams a witch, dads a muggle(2020)

@jax6754 tweeted
....especially as my mom and dads deaths were smoke related. Ha(2015)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
avourite programmes. That and Dads Army(2020)

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
k all mobile aboot ma mum and dads mobile phone. Better sending (2020)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
al for weans, teachers, mums, dads, papas, grans and aabody. My (2020)
athersday2020 to all the good dads oot there, those gone and tho(2020)

General Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
he majored in Latin??! You're dads a sound (2021)