A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'oure'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
oureOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.273
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 27.6 6 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 oure in Corpus

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West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Eftyr the byrth of oure Lord dere, on page 129

1 matches

Cunningham, Liam Tam, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Bellshill, prose
ty goin oan. A widnaeive went oure tae it bit a wiz interested s
it a wiz interested so a went oure n looked through the windae n
r so a thought that if a jamp oure the brig thit the witches cou
er so a gave it a go n a jamp oure the stane brig n the young wi
A goat aff ma horse n a went oure tae her tae say sorry fir bei
5 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
All þat nycht oure schyand cleire.
1 matches

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