A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'shaire'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shaireOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.582
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.8 5 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 42.2 3 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of shaire in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ing oantae the shelf. Ah'm no shaire if it's the weed or the vodka on page 21
aroond the room, jist tae be shaire. on page 34
er a dirty lame fuckwit, ah'm shaire didnae quite help her mood. H on page 61
clear" he tells me, smug and shaire ae himsel "A peanut done him on page 64
oady. And yae wur never quite shaire whether tae laugh or start di on page 78

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General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
urns tae effectively heft an' shaire thair waark an' pit thair nee on page 8
curns tae effectively heft an shaire thair waark an' pit thair nee on page 41
curns peyin a shaire o' rinnin costs. Thon bes a t on page 46

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