A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'asda'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
asdaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.33315
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 53.2 12 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 17.9 7 3
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 13.4 10 6
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 asda in Corpus

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Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
sks aboot da 1 way system in @asda. #CovidStupidness #WhyArePeop (2020) twitter link

Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
Asda Dyce is hoora winny. https://(2020)

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
@AsdaServiceTeam @asda still waitin’ but noo am wai(2020)
by friggin Christmas trees in ASDA....I mean really....A couple (2011)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
those ready made chickens fae Asda(2016)
she wants tae get veggies fae Asda fer oor tea bit canna be arse(2016)
Aff doon tae Asda beach boulevard fer a loaf n (2016)
hen Jessie tells me tae go to Asda up the beach as nae milk! Fit(2016)
tarted fer me early. Been tae Asda, got yon sma bottles o Belgia(2017)
and 5 other occurrences.

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
in scan at a busy checkoot at Asda before yae start askin the fo on page 87

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
y wis comin oot o Edinburgh's ASDA muckle mercat whan thair ee w
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
xture up is a clown - as fir asda a widnae ken - a shop at m&s (2020) twitter link
assed yesterday on ma way tae asda at the jewel - cars had got (2020) twitter link
@Randall1875 asda best pizzas around defo (2020) twitter link
is it true asda hus won retailer oh the year (2021) twitter link
geein a bhoy a blow job at an asda car park at haulf one the day (2020) twitter link

West Central

Clark, Thomas Aw Aboard! The fecht for the Scots language stairts the day!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central - Bellshill, blog
ak Popeye's spinach luik like Asda's ain brand energy drink…
1 matches

Glasgow

Logan, Kirsty Lego, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
at he wis gonnae take her tae Asda in Govan in the morning, “c
1 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 67 - In Search o Robert Henrysoun, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
I went intae Asda's and asked the shelf-packers on page 123

1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
bear1867 Ah'll away along tae ASDA... ?? (2022) twitter link
ndy for nipping along tae the ASDA mind... (2023) twitter link

@jax6754 tweeted
@asda thanks fir puttin oan a bus s(2015)
rve havin ma Local shop bein @asda ....At least a got ma essenti(2015)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
@byrnesong @LidlGB @asda Nae upliftin or reassurin ava(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
Ah've no hed a lot o luck wi ASDA this week. First they sent me(2020)
at when ah bocht a jaiket fae ASDA.(2020)

@LowEndJardo tweeted
yesterday n it’s actual the asda smart price cola ae fags (2021) twitter link
wantin tae go tae robroyston asda to do this till we’re allowe (2021) twitter link

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