A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'pronouns'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pronounsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus13.1425
ORK - Orkney 59.6 6 1
SHD - Shetland 162.7 28 1
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 pronouns in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Tae thee, or no tae thee?, (Brisk Northerly 2020) Orkney, blog
The owld Orkney pronouns – the ‘thoo’s, the ‘t
But these pronouns are more or less completely e
™, and they kept their island pronouns alive, although they had live
he United States. The ancient pronouns serve a function going way be
in the past tae employ these pronouns when addressing a bairn, a sp
5 matches

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
ammar, adverbs, prepositions, pronouns, and soonds.
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
e twa forms fir twartree o da pronouns an twartree o da presposition on page 29
hin is identifiable or no) an pronouns. on page 46
4.3 Pronouns in Shaetlan on page 51
4.3.1 Personal pronouns on page 52
m. Da subject form o da idder pronouns is: on page 53
Also on pages 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63, 94, 95, 97
28 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
Pronouns on page 2
Pronouns on page 28
Possesive pronouns on page 29
is that Scots uses possessive pronouns whiles whaur speakers o ither on page 30

6 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Lallans pronoonciation o the pronouns an saiveral ither wurds is we
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
as non-binary using they/them pronouns." So are they transgender or (2020)