A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ant'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
antOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.587
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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 ant in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - The Cricket An The Eemock, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, poetry
Awa she rins tae neebur Ant,
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
pissed aff at the sniping at Ant Stewart, re his passing. He’ (2022) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
@DeesideDon Nae Ant(2020)

@Franwella tweeted
@LouiseNicol1: is wonderin if ant an dec dinna get the doric or(2011)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
erson oan twitter that thinks ant n dec r jist a pair oh wanker (2021) twitter link

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
The same wey thon wee ant that they're aye measuirin up on page 105

2 matches

General Central

@MartinBroon tweeted
Zat you ant??? https://t.co/Zg4d5DyjVB ht(2020)