A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'gotta'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gottaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4137
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 13.3 3 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
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 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of gotta in Corpus

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Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
@HollieB ?? I do. Gotta be able to print off d&d shee (2021) twitter link

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
An aa I gotta be is packed naturally on page 97

3 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@ashwilsonauthor snap lol - gotta let aff sum gass m8! (2021) twitter link
berry is called erchie btw - gotta luv thae gadgies wae the long (2021) twitter link
gotta b a wee trip tae the toni mac (2021) twitter link

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
that shiz still gotta dae, on page 67
A soul that's gotta be found on page 77

2 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
rips right oot ay him. ‘You gotta just take a chill pill, y’k
1 matches

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
doon tae past anterior subj (gotta love the sinder Port vbs - l(2020)

General Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
You gotta give to thon Yank. He can hat(2019)
oy1916 @lanPaisleyMP Hope you gotta a good price for thon poster?(2020)