A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'pronoun'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pronounOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.2236
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 104.6 18 2
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
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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 pronoun in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Tae thee, or no tae thee?, (Brisk Northerly 2020) Orkney, blog
ntirety – whit can a peedie pronoun hurt?
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
) dat haes a noun (entity) or pronoun (a wird at spaeks aboot fokk on page 46
tween da subject an da object pronoun in Shaetlan on page 53
at means at fir da reflexive pronoun da stressed on page 58
Shaetlan haes da pronoun opposition da tane... da tidd on page 60
tutes da noun an wirks laek a pronoun: on page 67
Also on pages 76, 91, 95, 98
15 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
, an ‘whit’ as a relative pronoun - at’s nedder tradeetional
1 matches

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
English da tag is meyd wi da pronoun alang wi da contracted negati
Shætlan da tag is meyd wi da pronoun alang wi a auxiliary inflecte

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
affen used as a demonstrative pronoun whan speakin aboot mair nor a on page 28
TIP: In Scots, the possessive pronoun 'mine' affen haes an '-s' eik on page 30

2 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
Spence, frae Jethart. Sae the pronoun 'he' comes ower as 'hae', an on page 119

1 matches

Law, John Lallans 56 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
first time ahint thon plural pronoun, John Law maun admit his sing on page 4

1 matches

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