A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

twit Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3 2 7.4 0 0 0 4.8
Number of occurrences104 5 0 0 0 1
Number of authors7 3 3 1

Occurrences of twit in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
e aff the phone. "The pompous twit... why daed that nice wee wum on page 1

2 matches

McNulty, Victoria Flit, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
Twit wit laiden musings
1 matches

@FaetheRye tweeted
hen Ah wis wee. Ma mither (no Twit, not 'either'??) wis a London (2022) twitter link

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Ye're a gypit aul twit, for nae maitter fit on page 15

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ee Sunti Claus at the Pairty! Twit Twa! https://t.co/z8ZY6xWMNv(2018) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
fae a random "lassie" on this twit thing & then sent me a bunch (2018) search twitter
l manage tae speck never mind twit or is that tweet! 8 pints doo(2019) search twitter
fit like a’body! Bin aff ma twit fer a while as his nithing ta(2020) search twitter

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
Twit twos an whussles ris frae the on page 2

1 matches

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