Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'it-'

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Use in varieties of Scots

it-	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	1.2	4	4
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	5.4	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire	13.1	1	1
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	13.9	1	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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of it- 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.

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ossed moo on a stick...a know-it-all in on page 29

1 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
s hanns roun't, "they gied me it-1in an on-birthday present." on page 81

1 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
kent-it-na.
bot pey-it-na onie hede.”
2 matches

Paisley, Janet Lallans 62 - The Numpty, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
we’re ootside. Miss Gobble-it-up glowered at me.
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 81 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Prestwick, newspaper
frae the wark-place, wi 'Dae-it-Yersel', at shaws us that spor on page 5

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
ike the soond ae bein whoever-it-is, ah'll come up: itherwise, on page 20

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
itchen. Soup daes fine wi'oot it-Mebbe it's aye pepper that mak on page 44

2 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
orraworraworra, said Whitever-it-wis, and Pooh fund that he had on page 18
'Hullo!' said Whitever-it-wis. on page 19

3 matches

Young, Clive Creative Scotland an the sowl o Scots, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
cam up wi a aff-the-wa , mak-it-up-as-ye-gang-alang writin sty
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
a. Soup's jest es guid wi'oot it-Maybae it's aye pepper that ma on page 88
lates an dishes crashad aroon it-yinst mair the shriek o the Gr on page 124

2 matches