A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ah’ve'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ah’veOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.9292
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 91.6 28 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 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 ah’ve in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
t aat shopping centres an say ah’ve a quick backspeirin fur ye - (2017)
Sae ah’ve heard aff these Twitter fowk (2017)
It’s nae caul tonight quine ah’ve gien ye a het satty bree bott(2017)
ments Celebrity Big Breether, ah’ve already bocht twaa bottles fa(2018)
ie neist year. Ye shid ging - ah’ve been, it’s a richt braw lauc(2018)
and 22 other occurrences.

General Central

@billykayscot tweeted
ld bloke thinks, “At ma age, Ah’ve nuthin tae lose”.?? https://(2020)