A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ted'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.81611
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 42 4 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 2
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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 ted in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
‘Weel, Ted,’ said the waathirman, ‘I
1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Smootie gengs ta Lerrick, (SCOTS corpus 2003) Shetland - Bressay, weans
Smootie plöted wi dem aa da wye tae da catte
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
na draw "Leave't tae me" said Ted "I'll seen get it redd on page 15

2 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
"Ah passed Ted doon at the Green half an ooe on page 34
y tae hear aboot yer brither, Ted. He wis a nice man. Ane o the on page 35

4 matches

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
Wee sharp teeth too ??. Poor Ted ????(2020)
TheGunnersPub Yi need tae get Ted his cagoule! ??(2020)

West Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 104 - Stephen, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
Rye, Keanu Reeves in Bill an Ted. He wis Slash rinnin his fing on page 13

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
Pr. Ted Cowan's on the politics o the on page 9

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
But eh tak meh hat aff ti Ted Baker an Joe Bloggs on page 65

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
thin in seek. Its great rusty ted tecth were dreepin wi somethi on page 69

1 matches

General Central

@DABArbuckle tweeted
guid tae see ma auld lecturer Ted Cowan getting his tuppence in(2020)

@raiphsays tweeted
@gingertotty Aw it BRAW! Ted is ma favrit! https://t.co/oO(2020)