A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'eighty'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
eightyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.61210
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 2
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 eighty 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.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Me lesson cost me eighty pounds. His wife sent me the on page 8

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Lands o Twatt, (Brisk Northerly 2018) Orkney, blog
Eighty year ago, wartime servicemen
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
"Johnny might be over eighty, but he was just like another on page 9
od predict he wid dee, smokin eighty fags a day wi his emphysema. on page 51

2 matches

Sinclair, James Makkin Hame, (Shetland For Wirds 2018) Shetland, poetry
a lang lost ghost o da gale o eighty wan.
1 matches

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
e Harlaw Academy fae nineteen eighty fower, ah wis robbed o a guid(2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
tae git its value up past the eighty quid mark. Poverty does that on page 18
balance ae thirteen quid and eighty pence sent ma hert flutterin. on page 25

2 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
s cheese an onion a hunner an eighty four, Walkers Lights a hunner on page 147

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
in eighty days, meh pocket on page 48

1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
hated aboot eighty percent ay that life. The lac on page 3

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
he rest o’ the miners in ‘eighty four, and we had sod all comi
1 matches

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