A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'dats'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
datsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.6213
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 122.1 21 3
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 dats in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
Dats whin I kent I wid laek her fu on page 8
"Queer? Dats what dey caaed it danadays. W on page 18
I tocht I wid hae paece here. Dats why I flit, ta get awa fae da on page 27
"Weel dats as may be," tocht Maggie, "Bi on page 33
gyaain tae Busta fur a meal. Dats whaar it aa startit." on page 41
Also on pages 53, 63, 75
8 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Dats my first reestit mutton o da (2013)

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
ficial merch for da community dats teen over my life. #CritterLo (2019) twitter link
vin stuff fur da lasses to do dats no screechin aboot da hoos li (2020) twitter link
We hiv a lovely way o spikin dats totally different fae scots (2021) twitter link
meones partner and remind dem dats its supposed to be 1 person p (2020) twitter link
@SamMGreer Oh dear. Dats not good (2020) twitter link
and 7 other occurrences.

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