A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ah’m'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ah’mOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus20.9684
ORK - Orkney 49.7 5 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 196.2 60 1
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
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 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of ah’m in Corpus

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Orkney

@johnkmitchinson tweeted
@meadowgreen_ @Historic_Ally Ah’m cheust heard hid noo. “Is hi (2019) twitter link
@Lenniesaurus Waahey! ?? Ah’m bin waitan fir this! (2021) twitter link
@molach95 @tattooedselkie Ah’m cheust needan tae mind on no (2021) twitter link
4 @Lenniesaurus @IrishDevil98 Ah’m been wantan tae speer whit ye (2021) twitter link
Ah’m cheust seen #RebelTongue wae (2020) twitter link

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Ah’m sae proud: Army Medical Servi(2016)
Ah’m mairriet tae a richt mockit w(2016)
in ah see dour Kiosk Keith on Ah’m a Celebrity Get Me Oot i' Her(2017)
tmas Day on the 25th - as if ah’m gaun tae go forget - er dist(2017)
Ah’m nae too siccar aboot the pati(2018)
and 51 other occurrences.

South East (Borders)

@officialAliRed tweeted
an” in the company o Teries! Ah’m trilingual, ken? ?? An oo’r (2019)

General Ulster

@Rosehill_girl tweeted
Ah’m fair gledsome fur tae see thi (2021) twitter link
Ah’m wile gled fir tae hear that! (2021) twitter link