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The word 'shuld'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shuldOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.1297
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 68.7 21 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 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 shuld 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
oon aboot, aneth e age o twa, shuld be slachtert, tae gree wi e t on page 8
d ye on fae fa'in for fear ye shuld strick yer fit upo a steen'." on page 10
come aboot. Faasomivver than, shuld fa foul o aiven e smaaest o e on page 11
"Gin ony chiel shuld tak ye tae e coort, sattle e on page 12
"Iss is foo ye shuld pray: on page 13
Also on pages 79, 80, 81, 90, 91, 101, 104, 109, 110, 114
21 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
ye shuld begin tae wind things doon a on page 107

1 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
tae ma mind he niver did. We shuld feel sorry fer Andy I guess.
Me, Ah think, an maybe’s Ah shuld pit this idea forward afore t
2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
it bein a soverign fowk an we shuld be mindin oor pals in Europe on page 44

1 matches

Edinburgh

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
braw at sucking cock, all ye shuld dae frim now oan, ah roll ma
1 matches

Glasgow

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
r smiles. Nae better than she shuld be, aat een, she wid thocht.
1 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin Universal Declaration o Human Richts, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Central, government
haudenment, that human richts shuld be beildit by the rule o
and conscience and shuld guide theirsels ane til ither
2 matches

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