A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ersed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ersedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.587
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 ersed in Corpus

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Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
er an I really truly canna be ersed ?? might be better tae juist (2021)

Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
davidson Hid till. Couldni be ersed though.(2020)

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
Canna be ersed cookin'(2012)

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
@FaeFoggie Big Ersed Quines - Queen(2019)
*ersed ??(2020)

(South) East Central

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
positions. They’re biscuit-ersed an their coats are on shoogly
1 matches

General Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 73 - Waashin Day Weirriors, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
"Ahhhhhh! Ya fat ersed hoor!" on page 66

1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
ntit thit they did sic a hauf-ersed job. They did mair - an less(2020)

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