A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'loadsa'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
loadsaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7122
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 50.6 11 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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 loadsa in Corpus

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West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Paisley toon hall an she won loadsa medals fur it. Last night, sh on page 22
in primary so ah know thir's loadsa shit your wans arenae on page 25
Christmas night an there wur loadsa folk there aw singin an danci on page 41
pink helmet, an a padlock, an loadsa other wee footery things lik on page 42
ccordin tae Nicola, she's met loadsa famou, folk, an they aw they on page 76
Also on pages 96, 126, 130, 160, 169
11 matches

General Central

@ThonJacobite tweeted
@Glenlyon17 Loadsa cracklin(2021)