A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'there’s'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
there’sOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.93512
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 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 62 14 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 18.7 14 5
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 42.2 3 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of there’s in Corpus

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Shetland

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
k you Emma, and do take care. There’s going to be such a hamefarin (2020)

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
the keeper showed up well and there’s mair tae come fae Rama, Miovs (2022) twitter link
tae Scotland. I dinna ken if there’s onything in it, but, this is (2022) twitter link
@AberdeenFC @ScottishCup Like there’s plinty tae choose fae of on f (2021) twitter link
@caitlin27204868 @AberdeenFC There’s a lot who accept even grudgin (2021) twitter link
d flush? Folk keep asking why there’s nae real critique of the mala (2021) twitter link
and 6 other occurrences.

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
Glesga spikker. Do ye ken if there’s been onythin written aboot it(2020)
Hmmm. There’s something about the sound of (2020)

@Franwella tweeted
@j_d_r63 There’s jist nae words ???????(2020)

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
Mince,bean and tattie pie ??. There’s no a thing we dinnae put in a(2020)
e finish ????. Cannae believe there’s nothing on this side. World h(2020)

@ricky_ballboy tweeted
There’s a fair wheen o guid readin in(2020)

General Central

@IshbelMcF tweeted
ots language gets saved cause there’s a bunch o hot campaigners the(2020)
rMDempster @TommyHerbert Aye! There’s hunners. It’d be a braw conc(2018)

@MartinBroon tweeted
@BehaltKeeps @craigblackphoto There’s no doot aboot it @davemitch19(2020)
ut some of the, “sorry Boys, there’s nae extension”, and some of (2019)

@billykayscot tweeted
ht be gey dreich the day, but there’s ay colour an licht tae gie th(2020)
@pruetweets There’s a wheen ither versions an mai(2020)
yont fae this black squad - there’s nae sic savages elsewhere all(2020)
h tracking down, Adeline, and there’s an auld alliance connection -(2020)
s I only ken lift as sky, but there’s a wheen ither meanins in the (2020)
and 2 other occurrences.

@LairnScots tweeted
'Then there’s Kevin McKidd, an Elgin boy, w (2018) twitter link

@LowEndJardo tweeted
There’s 18 month between me n meg las (2021) twitter link
3rd day in ma new flat n there’s a powercut, time tae get to k (2021) twitter link

General Ulster

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
@thebogmyrtle And there’s too many eejits fond of sledg(2020)
@StuartPoet It is aye - there’s a big white yin beside me!(2020)
@placenamesni There’s hunners mair! :)(2020)