A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'def'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
defOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.244
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 def in Corpus

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General Northern

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
on funcy pet suntie suits tae Def Con high doe! #WaatchOot #Far(2018)

@daleser23 tweeted
Paul_Coull @conlin41091 i wid def hae ane(2013)

General Central

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
katiec1314 It's no a biscuit, def willing to go tae war on this(2020)

@iainnicol tweeted
@SazCaz81 Ay, that'll def dae the job.(2020)