A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ahd'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ahdOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.4187
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 65.3 13 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 ahd in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
n efter waitin till shd tocht ahd heard da Rabbit juist anunder on page 36

1 matches

(South) East Central

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
chat guid at readin oot lood, ahd heard her loads eh times. But on page 7

2 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ves her, except if ah wis her ahd tell Lyndon tae sling his sli on page 169

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
me fae, ah stick the thoosand ahd set aside in a broon envelope on page 10
. It'll just no be as much as ahd planned, that's aw. on page 11

2 matches

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
door unlocked and ah wis sure ahd locked it. Ah hink the two ur on page 5
. Ah widnae practise and then ahd make an erse ae ma chords in on page 8
der date in a couple ae oors. Ahd organised it afore Steven die on page 11
But ahm a really strict boss. Ahd sack me like that: on page 17
'Gid yin, he says. 'Ahd heard ye were a bit ae a wind on page 18
Also on pages 19, 29
10 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
ll me ae sit in the front and ahd be like that, 'Yass man.' Noo on page 75

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Me? Ahd hae tellt the sculptor on page 28

1 matches

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