A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'they’re'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
they’reOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.12012
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
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
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 13.3 10 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 they’re in Corpus

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Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
18 yet” and then I mind that they’re all over 18 and I’m just get (2018) twitter link

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
a kind of troll/fairy hybrid. They’re said to be short, grotesque c(2019)

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
r seen the flax in bloom, For they’re aye cooped up in houses when (2020) twitter link

General Northern

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
s_the_Bull1 Fir yer sake hope they’re nae firin’ up the auld barbe(2020)

@Franwella tweeted
r th silver linin’s fowkies, they’re oot there #bideathame #bidesa(2020)
s ????. I pretend it’s cause they’re better fir th environment n r(2018)

West Central

@MizLiot tweeted
nae ken how somebody who says they’re frae Glesga gets tae be in th (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

@johnstone_shane tweeted
e day wi Arkbound Publishing. They’re working on inclusion in the i (2020) twitter link
@TheScotsman today about what they’re up to in Scotland. My buik ge (2020) twitter link

General Central

@ionafyfe tweeted
@joydunlop @caroline_sewell They’re bowf!(2020)

@MartinBroon tweeted
n” cover over the“I”?Cause they’re intae the next round,probably(2020)
huz skyrocketed wae past what they’re trained fur. It’s bein in a (2020)
, yer already a Legend! ??. “They’re(2020)
@Ianiesta8 @ClydeFC Aye they’re watchin @GlasgowCityFC But th(2020)

@billykayscot tweeted
alist/Unionist MPs an MSPs - they’re only in it for the pruch! htt(2020)
dair. I ken her an her man an they’re baith fluent Scots speakers.(2020)
zziehmp @joao_kay Lug worm - they’re even harder tae remove ??(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
n. Some teachers tell me that they’re feart tae promote the leid in (2018) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@officialAliRed tweeted
r than Hawick green! And aye, they’re guid brakes right enough - e(2020)