A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'onto'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ontoOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.22013
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 47.4 4 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 16.3 3 3
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 onto in Corpus

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Orkney

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
e hoose goes quiet and I turn onto me side, pull the blankets up on page 85

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Rumbles, Brodie-Anne Recordin on Beep, (Scots Hoose 2022) Doric - Banff, weans
up ma glaisses and push them onto ma neb.
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
e sheep which has fallen over onto her back and canna right hers (2020) twitter link

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
s as they chuck packages doon onto my land – usually twice a y
ear. I have to force masel up onto ma feet and gaither fit littl
d a few trees have blaan owre onto ma road – nithing I hivna d
me,’ Andrew says. He grabs onto the rope ladder and starts cl
4 matches

General Northern

Coutts, Pete Belhelvie, (bandcamp 2016) Doric, poetry
The young loon faas onto his knees, just far his faith
1 matches

(South) East Central

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ff horizon, aye tenty to haud onto the airn stairheid ravelin fo
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
l - then 1 at middleshot and onto pinkie for an afternoon game (2021) twitter link
n this braw weather - popped onto twitter - and noo its this s (2021) twitter link
now onto the man u game live - cannae (2020) twitter link

Dundee

Matthews, Lily A SPARK O INSPIRATION, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
t fat droplet o smur splashed onto mah neck an bolted doon mah b
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ticals for dropping personnel onto the Border ...”
“lll just hang onto that illusion if you don’t
2 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
y smile. 'Soon we'll move you onto the production line. For now, on page 60

1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
“Your case has been passed onto me by 111. Let me see...”
1 matches

Bratchpiece, Neil The Wee Man Ft. Leo - Parliamo Glasgow, (YouTube 2014) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Ye wernae listening, yer onto
1 matches

General Central

Coyne, Hilary The giant’s wife – or Ailsa the irked, (hilarycoyne.com/ 2021) Central, prose
eway nonsense. They’re away onto the nixt notion now.
1 matches

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