A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'a-days'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
a-daysOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7128
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of a-days 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.

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Grottie-Buckie and Tirli-Wirli, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997352) Shetland, weans
Noo-a-days he spak maistlins tae himsel, on page 6

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
e ca'ed the Allargue Arms Noo-a-days open aa year for the skiers on page 15

4 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
joogs that fowk drank fae noo-a-days. She sat doon at the aal deal
1 matches

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
tors, bit it’s naw ofen noo-a-days a git a un-be-kent guid-leuki
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
If maist Scots speakers noo-a-days says night, right an light ra
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
sicht mair nor ae baw-bee noo-a-days.
1 matches

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
attie liftin's in ma heid noo-a-days. Nae fir gettin yirdit an sai(2020)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Yid Nichol’s lairdship nou-a-days. A’ve read someplace, thit
1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
wull A say aboot tha fowk noo-a-days? Whut kine o fowk ir the'? Th on page 81

1 matches

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