A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word '-it'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
-itOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus0.932
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 10.2 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
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)

Occurrences of -it 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.

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
lossed moo on a stick...a know-it-all in on page 29

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
addit an auld cat’s bell-it made a heich jinglin soun. Yo
the nicht wis a speecial nicht-it wis firewirks
2 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
kent-it-na.
bot pey-it-na onie hede.”
2 matches

Paisley, Janet Lallans 62 - The Numpty, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
s we’re ootside. Miss Gobble-it-up glowered at me.
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 81 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Prestwick, newspaper
e frae the wark-place, wi 'Dae-it-Yersel', at shaws us that spo on page 5

1 matches

Nicol, Alissa Poor Wee Livvy, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
"I-it wis a skinny wee pale hing! I
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
like the soond ae bein whoever-it-is, ah'll come up: itherwise, on page 20
rabbit hole-bit then-bit then-it's awfy stringe, ye know, this on page 35
's!" said Five, "Ah'll tell ye-it wis fir bringin the cook tuli on page 76
"It's, eh-it's a braw day, in't it!" said on page 80

4 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
erywan in school wid be oot on-it at the weekend. Monday tae Th on page 6
d MD 20/20 tae keep us mad-wae-it until we huv tae head in. on page 16
s shoulders. Broonie's mad-wae-it dancin aboot on his tiptoes, on page 18
in a smoke durin the week n on-it at the weekend wae the troops on page 23

5 matches

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
sea bioluminescent come-an-get-it fish. The Chain Road linkt he
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
Ettlin-like tae "queen-it": on page 5
that rabbit hole-an yet-an yet-it's gey byordinar, this kin o l on page 34
s gaun doun the lum? Nae fears-it's no me! You dae it!-I will n on page 37
" said Five, "an I'll tell him-it wis for bringin the cook tuli on page 44

5 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
worraworraworra, said Whitever-it-wis, and Pooh fund that he ha on page 18
'Hullo!' said Whitever-it-wis. on page 19
Hoolet hoasted in a no-taen-wi-it kind o wey, and said that, if on page 131

4 matches

Young, Clive Creative Scotland an the sowl o Scots, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
n cam up wi a aff-the-wa , mak-it-up-as-ye-gang-alang writin st
1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
the rabbit-hole-an yit-an yit-it's richt an curious, yae know, on page 35

1 matches

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