they'r | Corpus occurrences | Central | Doric / Northern | Orkney | Shetland | Southern | Ulster | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Occurences normalised per million words | 10.8 | 9.1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48.7 | |
Number of occurrences | 35 | 18 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
Number of authors | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
'But they'r no merried, ur they?' on page 76
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Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
e we write "they" an "thae", "they'r", "their" an "thir", "say" an
ond. This means that even tho they'r soondit different in differen
r "oo" (this happens for that they'r maistly English lens, but the
re an aa insteed o their ain. They'r lairned the likes o this frem
irnt Scots spaekin bairns, an they'r left aathegither in ignorance
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Fleemin, Sandy Shudder at the Niffer, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
on the auld "Ye'r no bad!"). They'r richt, tho, in their intuitio
i" an "by" for "by", juist as they'r sayed.
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Fleemin, Sandy No on BBC, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
t ye start ti wonder what wey they'r gittin theirsels in sic a tir
this whaur ye dinna ken what they'r sellin till the last saicont,
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Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
shoutit doun, telt that whit they'r sayin isnae valid, an neither
n juist personal tragedies - they'r naitional yins, losses no jui
Mind, mebbe wirds arnae aw they'r cracked up tae be. Ye mind sÃ
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Kirk Jn, Albert Guid Fences Mak Guid Neibours, (albertkirkjr.com 2022) Central - Aryshire, blog
They'r for the watchin, an dinnae gi
Yin couthie meenit they'r clappin yer croon
An neist thing ye ken they'r snibbin ye doon,
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Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
the verra best - an at's fit they'r gaun te git." on page 11
"They'r nae." Dottie reedened. "Aabod on page 22
"Ah ken at, bit they'r nae deef, ir they?" on page 26
Interlock semmit an draars. "They'r a fair age,"' he confessed, " on page 37
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