A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'reets'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
reetsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5164
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 49 15 4
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
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 reets 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
he aix is laid up tae e verra reets o e tree, an ilka tree att di on page 9
ak in e wird; bit they've nae reets. They tak wi it for a filie b on page 93

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
dlie tree ruggit oot its hale reets an flichtered aff till it hin
ke a timmer doo, an sinks its reets inno the san.
twa, an the tree rugs up its reets an lowps up tae the starnies
n like a balloon an sinks its reets inno the jungle again. An the
wi ae michty pech rugs up its reets an awa like lichtnin they aa
5 matches

Hutchison, Pat Sanners Gow's Tales and Folklore of the Buchan - The Clootie Dummmplin!, (Ayton Publishing 2017 ISBN: 978-1910601419) Doric - Banffshire, prose
Jocky teen a barrafae o kale reets ower the wye o the midden wi
the barra an skailed the kale reets aboot the grun. Mair than cur
iz grummlin aboot the skailed reets an his gweed sark bein ruined
3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
he forkietails sleepit in her reets. Bit Rosie wis dowie an
hae pysont twa or three o her reets
bedd in the reets o an auld fir tree wi his fri
h the tree, alang the touzelt reets, lay the rim o the loch. It w
4 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
keekat doon an saw her mochie reets showing an socht her if it wi(2019)

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena The Spikk o the Nor East Leid, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Doric, poetry
His name hid reets in Celtic lore, a legendary b
1 matches

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