Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'tense'

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Use in varieties of Scots

tense	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	25	80	23
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	220.9	38	4
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	11.9	1	1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	10.2	4	3
WCE - West Central	13.8	3	1
DUN - Dundee	21.2	2	1
EDN - Edinburgh	18.8	3	1
GLA - Glasgow	10.9	2	2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	33.4	25	9
SEA - South East (Borders)	12.5	1	1
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	14.1	1	1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of tense in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
er alane. I felt mair an mair tense as da moarnin draggit on, til on page 48

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
der tense an twitchy. on page 29

1 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
Present tense: Hit's happenin eenoo on page 44
iliaries combines tae shaa da tense (whin sumthin happens), aspec on page 70
5.1.1.1 Da present tense on page 71
5.1.1.2 Da past tense on page 72
The past tense indicates that something happ on page 73
Also on pages 74, 75, 87
31 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
ter ta hiv) ta mak da perfect tense - dat is, ‘I’m beukit’
1 matches

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
Shætlan shaas da perfect tense by da øs o BE: A'm seen da f
irt English, whaar da perfect tense is shaan bi øsin HAVE (I've
o da sam form fir da perfect tense as it does fir aanin (tae HAV
o da languages at hae perfect tense dø dis, an d'ir aa fun athin

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
r wis staanin ticht-lipped an tense. 'We're jist aboot there,' he on page 45

1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
aboot. He is ragin. His body tense. Fists clenched. The wummin i on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
perate attempt tae defuse the tense situation, he says: "I'm not on page 43
e done nuttin tae lighten the tense mood in the air. He hud the s on page 187

2 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
outhful, Ill take the huff. Tense stuff in the Wood hoose today(2020)

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ped eatin and sat there verra tense, listenin. on page 39
eans in the hall were starin, tense, waitin fur somethin tae happ on page 120
The weans stayed quiet and tense. They kent mair aboot this ti on page 210

3 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
mosphere in thon room wis sae tense that fowk were still backin a on page 94
the atmosphere wis still gey tense. on page 128

2 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
It wis a tense month. Balvinder gaed back ta
rs an orra louns. There wis a tense silence.
, bit Raggle felt his muscles tense .
3 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
s, specially wans in the past tense or usin glottal stoaps (like on page vi

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
s ae wine, yir double fucked. Tense affair this n A kin see it on on page 13

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
* Wrutten in the present tense on page 9
Wrutten in the present tense on page 10
e mak a third-person singular tense o the verb (He fechts) on page 21
* The past tense o some (strang) verbs is makk on page 23
Usin 'Narrative present tense' on page 24

10 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
t to be faur back in the past tense nou: it wes aye ane o Allwull on page 72

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
in anither form (plural, past tense, etc.) or wi anither meanin a on page 14

1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
xample, the tradeetional past tense o the verb ti pit is pat, an
eip forrit’ but in the past tense ‘We pat this threip forrit�
ip forrit’ an i the perfect tense ‘We hae pitten this threip
g (eg. cam uised as a present tense , likely juist cause it leuks
4 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
e various spellins o the past tense (facht, fawcht, faucht(e), fa
1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
es like the narrative present tense hae jist aboot deed oot o Eng
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
weak past tense forms o specific verbs: fur e
1 matches

@jack_capener tweeted
@stewartbremner Past tense o 'greet' is 'gret' or 'grat'(2020)

@fairpechtoot tweeted
uffix - it, tae indicate past tense, in auld texts. Aye hink aboo(2017)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
ld in some esteem. WERE. Past tense. https://t.co/9DzXCtb6RL (2022) twitter link

@LairnScots tweeted
ved' is an example o the past tense bein simplified, and ye'll he (2020) twitter link
t! Whit dae ye think the past tense o the word 'dive' is...is it (2020) twitter link
ots grammar! Whit is the past tense o the word 'dive'? (2020) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, newspaper
dminiculate is ettelt present tense or past participle - aiblins on page 5

1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Simmer, pittin Wunter in past tense. on page 48

1 matches