Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'rither'

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Use in varieties of Scots

rither	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	1.8	6	2
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)	74.9	6	2
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 rither in Corpus

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South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
lk aboot hur ony mair if ee'd rither no." on page 21
conversation. Ahlice replied, rither shyly, "Ah-Ah herdly ken, Mis on page 42
"Ah'd rither no," th Cat remarked. on page 83
icers o th court. (As that is rither a hard word, Ah wull jist exp on page 112
"Ah'd rither feeneesh ma tea," said th Hat on page 113

5 matches

@cammyrudkin tweeted
A wud rither poke ma eye wi a sherp stick (2012)