A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ser'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
serOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.7196
ORK - Orkney
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 195.3 14 1
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 ser in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 83 - The Puppet Mannie, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, poetry
That wad ser tae gledden bairn an bairnlik
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 114, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
reflects the commonties they ser an will pit Bòrd na Gàidhli
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
“Yer instincks seems tae ser ye weill,” he sayed, “sin
1 matches

General Central

Holton, Brian Lallans 67 - The Nine Sangs: Brian Holton, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
mensefu we come, see, ti ser the Lord Abune on page 17

1 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 71 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
n this yird that’s come tae ser some mynt. Thir deegital eema
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
an sort ye richt oot sherpish ser. Am shair ye'll enjoy them ba(2020)
llie. 'Ony pruch in the nicht ser?" Then the bag'd get opened a(2020)
gerpicture Aye, we'd say 'Haw ser, yer faither wisnae a glazier(2020)
pStuff @carol_baraniuk Thanks ser, certainly is, Ah'm gey hallo(2020)
Yon means a wheen ayont wirds ser, mony thanks. Noo awa an enjo (2020) twitter link
and 9 other occurrences.