A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'nought'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
noughtOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.2201
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 24 18 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 nought in Corpus

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Glasgow

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ah can hope fur is dreamin o nought.
n ah wis in that coma, ah saw nought. Nae white licht.
2 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
school, but the teacher says nought. He's hidin behind his on page 6
doon oan me awready. There's nought wrang wi Burns. Much better t on page 9
n ah saw hur. Grawn up and wi nought tae show tae the world but tw on page 10
me a wet paper towel. There's nought in the wee school that cannae on page 15
hat teacher knows ah come fae nought, and ah'm determined tae play on page 16
Also on pages 17, 18, 27, 36, 45, 46
11 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
There's nought ah can say. Ah tell Mum ah ne on page 26
hursel. She didnae dae en'in. Nought you lot huvnae done a hundred on page 27
ah loved the Pleasure Beach, nought dazzled ma eyes mair than the on page 32
he oan button, it lit up like nought hud happened. on page 84
o the drink, she looked like nought mair than a bully. The only c on page 85
Also on pages 89, 91
7 matches

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