A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'naught'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
naughtOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.4274
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 43.4 8 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 21.4 16 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) 2369.7 1 1
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of naught in Corpus

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Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
leaves naught but stoor ahint. on page 23

1 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma Billy's Ghost Dug, (liarsleague.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Naught happens. No even a wee bark.
he internet. When ye’ve gat naught, ye’ve gat naught tae lose.
, ye’ve gat naught tae lose.
en a lot o them, ah’ve seen naught like this. Ye’d huv tae be
u rub it like it’s a genie. Naught happens. Ah fling it across t
8 matches

Ayrshire

Wallace, Lorna An Ode Tae Tinder, (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2020) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
An’ naught but hawf oor love affairs
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
nald drinks like a fish, he's naught but guid tae me and oor lassi on page xii
f again. The lassie who wants naught mair than tae be a star - a s on page xiv
v suited that dress mair, but naught ah say will coax hur oot o we on page 8
up at the empty, gold frame. Naught wis sacred tae hur. on page 9
last straw - five pounds is naught tae hur. on page 15
Also on pages 28, 54, 56, 58, 75, 76, 77, 78, 81, 82
16 matches

South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)

BardOfMilebush Untitled poem, (Reddit 2017) Ulster, poetry
their wee rhymes and English naught ava
1 matches

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