A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sixty-six'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sixty-sixOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.654
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 18.4 4 3
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sixty-six in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Saands o Maywick, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
A hunder an sixty-six cod dey wir gotten, a guid su
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
'It's twa hunner and sixty-six,' Matilda said, saftlike. on page 67
"Twa hunner and sixty-six,' Matilda said. on page 68

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
wis Hygiene, an the Eighteen Sixty-Six Sanitary Act. It wis dead bor on page 169

1 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Cantsmell, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2020) Central, prose
wis Hygiene, an the Eighteen Sixty-six Sanitary Act. It wis dead bor
1 matches

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