Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'dar'

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Use in varieties of Scots

dar	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	27.5	88	8
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	345.5	78	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	1.3	1	1
SEA - South East (Borders)	12.5	1	1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)	125.5	4	1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)	32.8	1	1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)	18.2	1	1

Occurrences of dar in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
his heid ipo da paet bucket. 'Dar's right, lie dere, du snivell on page 19

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
ce, eit feyl't lyke haim. Bit dar ye get oot a haan, cus ye wid on page 32

1 matches

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
Dar Oma on page 1
Dar Oma on page 2
Dar Oma on page 3
Dar Oma on page 74
Dar Oma on page 75

78 matches

General Central

Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
langage plannin processes, Ú dar ás na Gaeltachta is in chairg
1 matches

South East (Borders)

The Westender Ins and oots, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
ae contribute owt. Bit then a dar say, juist like other toons,
1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
haes heid contemptuously. "A dar say yae hae niver iver spoke on page 70
l naw butt in on yae agane. A dar say thur micht bae yin." on page 74
"A dar say yae'r wunnerin why A dinn on page 90
Alice didnae dar tae disobey, though shae feel on page 105

4 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Fur shud ye dar tae contradict, on page 48

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
istèr!" But naebodie ava wud dar ax hïm ocht mair. on page 104

1 matches