A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'cid'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cidOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.82613
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 49.6 8 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 2
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 cid in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
is maet in a dwam. Es mither cid hae been pittin Kit-e-Kat doo on page 84

1 matches

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
ey'll sen oot a diver Fae the CID Aiberdeen on page 15

1 matches

Wilson, Katie Becus a hae a sister a hae a friend, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Buckie, prose
fun is it use tae be, wish a cid go back tae the times we’d
uck it doon oor throats so we cid go back oot and play till the
2 matches

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
yin, hoo aboot us flittin. Ah cid dae wi a cheenge. Ye micht li on page 40

4 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
Cid aw ye nekid hoory wifey fowk (2017)

West Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 104 - Stephen, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
en though he hud broon een an cid drink Loch Lomond dry. Ah'd m on page 16

1 matches

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
re Krishna, Hare Hare’ they cid just git richt roon ye and ye
1 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
t town n if he mis-stepped ye cid see him sliding down intae gu
lly sure of all hings that he cid so often explain aw his thoug
ternally identical houses. Ah cid bore ye wi aw the fancy ways
oney than auld fellas like us cid bother to whittle away on the
ee bastard twice as much as I cid even dream of in the most hea
8 matches

General Central

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
swore he cid rin faster on page 11
he cid pulverise a grapefruit on page 17

2 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
Lalor an wee Pat Lalor so we cid go fur a walk up the country. on page 44
Ah'd wan o thim tae. Then Ah cid go hame an dae ma ain recipes on page 45

2 matches

@jack_capener tweeted
ting topic - onie chaunce ye cid gies a wheen o sources fir ta(2018)

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
cid hae skelpit on page 86

1 matches

Tindal, Betty Lallans 73 - The Scaffie Man’s Tale, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
em that screeched in frae the CID, wid hae said a wee thank you on page 113

1 matches

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