A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'avoided'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
avoidedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.177
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
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 avoided in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
It got that bad his comrades avoided him like the plague.
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
@aberquine @BBCScotland IÂ’ve avoided it - thought aboot watching (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
d thir wis nae whiltin te. Ah avoided gaun up fur a couple eh weeks on page 7

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
tball up here could have been avoided with all games at grassroots (2021) twitter link

West Central

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
€™d been oan a boat ah’d uv avoided the galley
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
ell go that wiy. It cannae be avoided forever. She takes wan ay tha on page 3

1 matches

General Central

@weenell3 tweeted
nds Thank god I'm working and avoided mair Tory p*sh (2022) twitter link