A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'rite'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
riteOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus196113
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
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 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 456.7 43 2
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.7 8 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 74.9 6 2
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 rite 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

Flett, Alison Harbour, (Scottish Poetry Library 2004) Orkney, poetry
rite inuff
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
y news, and I hope ye'll sune rite, and don't forget to tell my
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
htonS @LEAFA_Official aye too rite m8 n the drinks r oan him eft (2020) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
fixed. This guy in the Start Rite shoe shop, he fittet her wi t on page 12

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Lallans 82 - The Banes o Alba, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
an rite an revelry minglet on page 32

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
me alang thi weh in order ti rite this book an gave me so many on page i
Let me, put yir haed rite oot o reach on page 1
Eh thought it wiz only rite that eh on page 3
eh do believe that yi got it rite on page 4
Thi memory performs, rite now on page 10
Also on pages 15, 29, 30, 31, 32, 35, 45, 47, 48, 49, 51, 57, 63, 64, 68, 72, 73, 83, 93, 104, 107, 108, 109, 110, 112, 120
42 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
"Whit is a rite?' speired the wee prince. on page 70

2 matches

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
park yer erse doon in yer fav'rite chair an' relax. Let this Wee on page

2 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - A Mass In Scots For Saint Andrae, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
Innin Rite on page 97

2 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
greeneUK So this is Scot Tory rite fodder. Min ye embarras yerse(2020)

@raiphsays tweeted
Neil Aw aw werrers bref comes rite oot!(2020)

South East (Borders)

@cammyrudkin tweeted
@lyall_hibees rite cum on then.....the ref wus s(2020)
@lyall_hibees rite cum on then.......the ref wus(2020)
@ChisholmIain yir rite. E oot the nite?(2012)
an adopted teri e hev ti spk rite #awayandboilyirheed(2012)
it a wud mairy Ella Henderson rite now!!!!! #schmazing(2012)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
@Jurathewestie Ye could be rite! https://t.co/r6gPZwPXqA(2020)