A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'owed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
owedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4136
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
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) 127.2 7 1

Occurrences of owed in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
the miles on a road map - I owed twelve pound twenty so far. on page 43

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
reen wi envy: er ain wardrobe owed mair te the Reed Cross shop t on page 30

1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
's job, ma auntie tellt me ah owed her a gey wheen o siller. Ah on page 194

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
wee whitreck o a curate, wha owed his state o grace mair tae th on page 41

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Deil, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
owed her at her usual rate, or fow
1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
rtit tae dae this, a man that owed hïm a foartune" wus brocht t on page 9
t siller tae fowk. An twa men owed hïm. Tha yin owed hïm five on page 82

7 matches

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