A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'aways'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
awaysOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus18.4593
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 140.7 55 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 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 aways in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ettin tae ken da Lerwick take-aways. https://t.co/wAowDY4qzj(2017)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
andfc you ken me wee man - a aways stick to the rules lol (2021) twitter link
@Bluebell_FC aways good 2 c a tweet from you guy (2021) twitter link
86 brother bobby is the man n aways will be (2021) twitter link
c1066 cheers lol once a relic aways a relic - mind eer bed sox n (2020) twitter link
onRangers thanx brother - am aways available - wae the talent g (2021) twitter link
and 50 other occurrences.

General Central

@raiphsays tweeted
ae wait! Is it a same hing ye aways say? Whit key/note is it in?(2020)
offers 2 time a munf! So ers aways gonnae be a uvver wan!(2020)
She aways be Barreless tae me! Barreles(2020)