A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'outta'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
outtaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.554
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 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
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 outta in Corpus

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Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
t sum wax on da trax an ollie outta here (2019) twitter link

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
er, the music means keepin me outta trouble, excuses her disaster on page 3

1 matches

General Central

Curt_Kenobi Mates, (archiveofourown.org 2016) Central, prose
It surprised the fuck outta me when eh kissed back.
It scared the shit outta me when, after we pulled apar
2 matches

@bigandymccoll tweeted
e never heard of him stepping outta party line doon there tho - (2022) twitter link

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