| verb | Occurrences normalised per million words | Occurrences | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Corpus | 42.1 | 135 | 17 |
| ORK - Orkney | 9.9 | 1 | 1 |
| SHD - Shetland | 238.3 | 41 | 3 |
| 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 | 30.7 | 12 | 2 |
| WCE - West Central | |||
| DUN - Dundee | |||
| EDN - Edinburgh | 18.8 | 3 | 2 |
| GLA - Glasgow | |||
| AYR - Ayrshire | |||
| LAL - General Central | 96.2 | 72 | 8 |
| SEA - South East (Borders) | |||
| SWE - South West (Galloway) | |||
| DUL - Donegal (East Donegal) | |||
| WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) | 817.5 | 5 | 1 |
| 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) | 32.8 | 1 | 1 |
| GUL - General Ulster | |||
| SYN - Synthetic (no region) |
Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
1. Da verb ta be insted o to have (or fo
€™ In idder wirds, a singular verb wi a plural subject.
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@shaetlan_rose tweeted
@Hjetlandi Yep used as a verb he means yun too(2020)
Fleemin, Sandy Shudder at the Niffer, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
s o distinctions is whaur the verb an noun form o a wird is the
is the differ atween "wirk" (verb, aften written "work" in trad
Anither example o this verb/noun distinction is "love" (n
on is "love" (noun) an "loo" (verb, whiles spelt "loe" or "lo'e"
The verb "hurl" can be uised as a abst
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 100, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
essons, gremmar exposeetions, verb leets an vocabular leets. The
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McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
that’ baith a noun an’ a verb!
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Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
n whilk spellin variations or verb pairts haes been notit aaread on page 15
the data affordit by a single verb, the RPS provides insicht int on page 17
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Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
innin wi ‘Them that’ wi a verb endin in - s, eg: ‘Them tha
tradeetional past tense o the verb ti pit is pat, an the past pa
s wi ‘They that’ + plural verb, eg: ‘They that hain at the
disna tend ti dae the same wi verb pairts. In the Linmill Storie
ds ti uise tradeetional Scots verb pairts (‘by the time she pa
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Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
comprehendin the like o Scots verb concord, that haes nae influe
ing sae aefauld as the native verb concord o the leid? The compu
us spend mair time gettin the verb concord richt. Deed, the feck
ark editin the text haes been verb furms an relatives. Tho the c
taen tae get the relatives an verb concord richt, an no mony fow
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Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
indicate a langer vowel. The verb is less straucht forrit. Alth
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Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
answert wi repeteetion o the verb, a prasent habeetual furm,3 a
ird-order an aw, but, seen in verb concord an in constructions t
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Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
es, or whan replacin a langer verb phrase. I’ve nae fund it ya
it daes occur is as a lexical verb in senses similar to ‘deal
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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
˜groceries’) and yaisin the verb ‘to mind’ tae mean ‘to
˜to remember/recall’ or the verb ‘to greet’ tae mean ‘to
ach tae preterites (simple/ae-verb past) and past participles, (
ciples, (complex/compoond/twa-verb past), which are are yaised m
bly. This is cried ‘reduced verb paradigm’. Fur exemple, ‘
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Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
din. Hooivver, adjectives and verb endins in ‘-t’ (or ‘-it
The verb ‘tae scunner’, alang with
ach tae preterites (simple/ae-verb past) and past participles (c
iciples (complex/compoond/twa-verb past), which are are yaised m
This verb covers sae muckle grund in Sc
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Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
age the day; fur exemple, the verb ‘tae wein’ meanin ‘tae
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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
Gaelic sentence sterts wi the verb (fur it is a verb initial lei
(fur it is a verb initial leid) while the Scots
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@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
ovScots @billykayscot Tint: a verb, as in Tam o Shanter - Boris(2016)
@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
just't' me for I hae nae mete verb...(2020)
@LairnScots tweeted
control the use of 'ken' as a verb, but when they yaise 'ken' as (2018) twitter link