A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'tweetin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tweetinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.2209
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 3
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 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 14.7 11 3
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of tweetin in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
eemie sat, night eftir night, tweetin wi da pocket knife, a full ri on page 71

1 matches

Manson, Finnley Wir Beach, (Scots Hoose 2017) Shetland, weans
I can hear da birds tweetin
1 matches

@tattooedselkie tweeted
no haed muckle negativity fir tweetin in Shetland dialect but I'm l(2021)
fyfe at inspired me tae start tweetin in dialect, mainly becis I sa(2021)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
itter fur the sole purpose ae tweetin what a vile evil cunt ah um. on page 54

1 matches

Burnett, Colin Boris Johnstone, (colinburnett.co.uk 2021) Central - East Central, prose
witer fur the sole purpose ae tweetin what a vile evil cunt ah um.
1 matches

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
Affa fine tae see ye tweetin in Scots! Haud gaun, Tayside (2020)
The Morgan is noo tweetin in Scots. Ony comments maist (2020)

General Central

@Chazzbat tweeted
uckie", an "radge". Ah've bin tweetin in Scots fer twa year, but ge(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
the full o January, we'll be tweetin aboot #Scots resources tae ya (2021) twitter link
This week, we're tweetin aboot FREE, PRINTABLE and DOW (2020) twitter link
This week, we're tweetin aboot FREE, PRINTABLE and DOW (2020) twitter link
This week, we're tweetin aboot FREE, PRINTABLE and DOW (2020) twitter link
This week, we're tweetin aboot FREE, PRINTABLE and DOW (2020) twitter link
and 4 other occurrences.

@ThonJacobite tweeted
obweb Me tae Verm. Ah mind o' tweetin aboot her plight jist afore a (2021) twitter link

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
doxievee Gie the Ulster Scots Tweetin a birl my freend: thon daft d (2014) twitter link