A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sowt'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sowtOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3116
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 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 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 4
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 sowt in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
no sowt a noost in some Nort Ham? on page 34

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
an maalies sowt a skelf ita da banks on page 19

1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Radge Against the Machine: Deid Wirds, Deid Warlds, an Why Scots Maitters, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
this time wis a language, an sowt tae be prood o - weel, that'
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Aw Aboard! The fecht for the Scots language stairts the day!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central - Bellshill, blog
cationally disadvantageous is sowt that gets laughed oot the pla
1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
vainisht. But it mindit me o sowt I haed lang forgot. Mony a ye
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Eemis Stane 2 - Editorial: A Twa Wey Street, (Eemis Stane 2023) Central, prose
That last yin is sowt Scots hasnae really had - at on page 3

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
An exemple sentence micht be sowt like:
tit by’ or ‘annoyed at’ sowt or somebodie.
2 matches

@jack_capener tweeted
xposure whane'er A cum oot wi sowt like "ilkyin gangs his ain ga(2019)
nal impact on me. There's aye sowt special about hearin ithers s(2018)

@ClashCityClarky tweeted
ff ma guid fere Matthew Fitt. Sowt's no richt, but, cause unlike(2018)

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