Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Intro a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Texts Writers Statistics Top200 Search Compare

Concordance

The word 'rether'

- basic concord - pre-sorted concord - post-sorted concord - map and chronology - chronogrid - similar spellings -

Use in varieties of Scots

rether	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	16.5	53	13
ORK - Orkney	9.9	1	1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)	703.3	20	1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	3.3	1	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen	23.7	2	1
DOR - General Northern	53.2	12	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	7.7	3	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	5.3	4	2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)	31.4	1	1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)	88.3	1	1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)	32.8	1	1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)	127.2	7	2

Occurrences of rether 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

Miller, Alison The Point o Tinsal, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Orkney, poetry
rether , he wid moothed hid, lovan th
1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
tipathies, A think-" (she wis rether gled air wisna wan listenan, on page 9
An here Alice began till get rether sleepy, an went on sayan till on page 10
at!" sade Alice till hersel, rether sharp soundan; "A advise e ti on page 14
moose!" E Moose looked at her rether interested leck, an seemed ti on page 21
"Found id," e Moose replied rether crosshy: "o course ee ken wha on page 24
Also on pages 33, 41, 57, 60, 63, 79, 81, 87, 99, 102, 105, 109
20 matches

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
al tae the Norwegian wye that rether nor common roots, A'd pit sil (2021) twitter link

Aberdeen

Facebook link (Doric Scots Books an Poems 2022) Doric - Aberdeen
Noo, folk wid rether ging tae a baker shop

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric - Aberdeen, poetry
Noo, folk wid rether ging tae a baker shop
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
s got a ticket tae Clyde. I'd rether watch Ayr on page 93
I'd rether be on Deeside on page 141

12 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
fore n efter the fitbaw - ad rether dae that than swan aboot at a (2020) twitter link
the edinburgh fringe m8 - ad rether hae a fish supper n a few pin (2021) twitter link
the noo - tbh its dire - ad rether watch sandys lol (2021) twitter link

General Central

@Chazzbat tweeted
ry's hair durin lockdoon? Or, rether, Mikey North? A'body else lui(2020)
ur ye haverin aboot?! Wid ye rether folk wur kept in the datk dur(2020)
ing the brek. Disgustin. Ah'd rether watch fag adverts(!)(2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
affordable. Personally, ah'd rether buy a tele that disnae come w(2021)

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Reynolds, Charlie Tha demise o oor ain tongue, (North Antrim Speak 2010) Ulster - Coleraine, blog
, an wha dinnae spake it, wud rether taak it aff tha 'life support
1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
But A'd rether wak on page 47

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Tha wife she'd rether stap at hame. on page 42

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
toon o tha Samaritans. © But rether gae tae tha loast sheep o Isr on page 9
an leevin ïn tha graveyaird rether than a hoose. Whan he saen Je on page 83
thïng tae be gled aboot, but rether be gled that yer names ïs wr on page 88
he wus drapt ïntae tha sea, rether nor hïm leadin yin o these p on page 98

6 matches

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
Rether no let oan
1 matches