tense | Corpus occurrences | Central | Doric / Northern | Orkney | Shetland | Southern | Ulster | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Occurences normalised per million words | 25.8 | 20.7 | 1.6 | 0 | 220.9 | 10.9 | 4.4 | |
Number of occurrences | 80 | 39 | 1 | 0 | 38 | 1 | 1 | |
Number of authors | 23 | 17 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
s ae wine, yir double fucked. Tense affair this n A kin see it on on page 13
1 matches
Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
aboot. He is ragin. His body tense. Fists clenched. The wummin i on page 1
1 matches
Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
perate attempt tae defuse the tense situation, he says: "I'm not on page 43
e done nuttin tae lighten the tense mood in the air. He hud the s on page 187
2 matches
Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ped eatin and sat there verra tense, listenin. on page 39
eans in the hall were starin, tense, waitin fur somethin tae happ on page 120
The weans stayed quiet and tense. They kent mair aboot this ti on page 210
3 matches
McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
mosphere in thon room wis sae tense that fowk were still backin a on page 94
the atmosphere wis still gey tense. on page 128
2 matches
Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
* Wrutten in the present tense on page 9
Wrutten in the present tense on page 10
e mak a third-person singular tense o the verb (He fechts) on page 21
* The past tense o some (strang) verbs is makk on page 23
Usin 'Narrative present tense' on page 24
10 matches
Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
t to be faur back in the past tense nou: it wes aye ane o Allwull on page 72
1 matches
Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
in anither form (plural, past tense, etc.) or wi anither meanin a on page 14
1 matches
Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
xample, the tradeetional past tense o the verb ti pit is pat, an
eip forrit’ but in the past tense ‘We pat this threip forritâ
ip forrit’ an i the perfect tense ‘We hae pitten this threip
g (eg. cam uised as a present tense, likely juist cause it leuks
4 matches
Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
e various spellins o the past tense (facht, fawcht, faucht(e), fa
1 matches
Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
es like the narrative present tense hae jist aboot deed oot o Eng
1 matches
Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
It wis a tense month. Balvinder gaed back ta
rs an orra louns. There wis a tense silence.
, bit Raggle felt his muscles tense.
3 matches
Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
weak past tense forms o specific verbs: fur e
1 matches
@DavidJWood2 tweeted
outhful, IÂ’ll take the huff. Tense stuff in the Wood hoose today(2020) search twitter
@jack_capener tweeted
@stewartbremner Past tense o 'greet' is 'gret' or 'grat'(2020) search twitter
@fairpechtoot tweeted
uffix - it, tae indicate past tense, in auld texts. Aye hink aboo(2017) search twitter
@bigandymccoll tweeted
ld in some esteem. WERE. Past tense. https://t.co/9DzXCtb6RL (2022) twitter link
@LairnScots tweeted
ved' is an example o the past tense bein simplified, and ye'll he (2020) twitter link
t! Whit dae ye think the past tense o the word 'dive' is...is it (2020) twitter link
ots grammar! Whit is the past tense o the word 'dive'? (2020) twitter link
De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
der tense an twitchy. on page 29
1 matches
I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
Present tense: Hit's happenin eenoo on page 44
iliaries combines tae shaa da tense (whin sumthin happens), aspec on page 70
5.1.1.1 Da present tense on page 71
5.1.1.2 Da past tense on page 72
The past tense indicates that something happ on page 73
Also on pages 74, 75, 87
31 matches
Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
ter ta hiv) ta mak da perfect tense - dat is, ‘I’m beukit’
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Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
Shætlan shaas da perfect tense by da øs o BE: A'm seen da f
irt English, whaar da perfect tense is shaan bi øsin HAVE (I've
o da sam form fir da perfect tense as it does fir aanin (tae HAV
o da languages at hae perfect tense dø dis, an d'ir aa fun athin