A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'owercomes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
owercomesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.894
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.4 7 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 owercomes in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
trongger chiel comes alang an owercomes him, he taks awa aa his wappi on page 100

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 176, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
' sae the Scots vyce an souch owercomes thae anomalies. Her writin ca
1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
Thaim that tholes, owercomes
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
cots saw “Thaim that tholes, owercomes” Scotland!??????????????(2020)
t’s tint. Thaim that tholes, owercomes. Thir’s amang ma favourite S(2020)
ots saw, “Thaim that tholes, owercomes!”(2020)
NicUalraig Thaim that tholes, owercomes. Hope ye’re feelin better, b(2020)
ce, Brian. Thaim that tholes, owercomes. Nae maitter whit they dae, w(2020)
and 1 other occurrences.

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