A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ones'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
onesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.43017
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 30.7 12 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 ones 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

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
And I know we're not the only ones. I heard-" "Whit did thoo hea on page 124

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
r the patient and their loved ones, it felt like grief for the s(2020)
ss sharing nature with little ones. Such a joy! When I was peeri(2020)

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
ldna taste theirs, an e peedy ones choked an hed till be patted on page 27

1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
ye we are nae creating one on ones but my goodness with jist a w (2022) twitter link
er and Tomkins are surely the ones who need tae be put on the sp (2021) twitter link

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
us parents are the worst. The ones that walk there bairns tae sc(2020)
??. Miserable fecks tho. Guid ones are obviously on the other si(2020)
annae beat a good pair. Cheap ones freeze yir toes aff ??.(2020)
oesnae apply tae auld retired ones tho ?????????(2020)
e mask. It’s all ages. Worse ones are guys in there 50s like my(2020)

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ady to play - well the smart ones will lol (2020) twitter link
the weekends m8 - the young ones r enjoying there games no end (2020) twitter link
wbankAfc great to c the young ones at the game guys (2020) twitter link
like to see - all the young ones enjoying there night - and t (2020) twitter link
t its all about for the young ones - hats off to everyone at th (2021) twitter link
and 2 other occurrences.

West Central

Pennie, Len Toast Tae The Daft Days, (Lidl 2020) Central, poetry
We'll hold the ones we call oor ain and think of
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
Beatrice sayed. “Scottish ones.”
1 matches

Glasgow

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
ze as the red, chewy, Swedish ones were munching the sweeties wh on page 36
dies always seem tae exist in ones. on page 40

2 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
'Iwas the ew atth ul ones, who with Cameron, were lying on page 48

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Naebody'd Seen Him, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
ones he needs to know about. There on page 18

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
commodate fat people. The old ones weren't doing the job properl on page 117

1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
oney1 Better than our current ones, who widnae have at least a s(2020)

@g_hibby tweeted
nd hope yer thoughts are guid ones?... ?? (2022) twitter link

@bigandymccoll tweeted
troops brought up and Glesga ones told to stay garrisoned cos h (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
socks! Them sooth with thick ones even with milder conditions!(2020)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
an_Barr How true. They're the ones we need to shout aboot fae th (2020) twitter link