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Use in varieties of Scots

verb Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words41.5 43.7 0 9.9 238.3 0 26.6
Number of occurrences13587 0 1 41 0 6
Number of authors17 12 1 3 2

Occurrences of verb in Corpus

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Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
o a sentence cairries oot the verb's action, follaein a clear su on page 11
* use the heid word o a verb (A fecht) on page 21
e present pairticiple mak o a verb, used for tae descrive an act on page 22
anied bi a mak o the auxiliar verb 'hae' (haes, haein, haed). on page 23
person singular version o the verb, even whan recoontin somethin on page 24
Also on pages 25, 31, 32, 45
32 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
n whilk spellin variations or verb pairts haes been notit aaread on page 15
the data affordit by a single verb, the RPS provides insicht int on page 17

2 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
ge), wird (word), wirk (work [verb]).
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Shudder at the Niffer, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
s o distinctions is whaur the verb an noun form o a wird is the
is the differ atween "wirk" (verb, aften written "work" in trad
Anither example o this verb/noun distinction is "love" (n
on is "love" (noun) an "loo" (verb, whiles spelt "loe" or "lo'e"
The verb "hurl" can be uised as a abst
10 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
innin wi ‘Them that’ wi a verb endin in - s, eg: ‘Them tha
tradeetional past tense o the verb ti pit is pat, an the past pa
s wi ‘They that’ + plural verb, eg: ‘They that hain at the
disna tend ti dae the same wi verb pairts. In the Linmill Storie
ds ti uise tradeetional Scots verb pairts (‘by the time she pa
6 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
comprehendin the like o Scots verb concord, that haes nae influe
ing sae aefauld as the native verb concord o the leid? The compu
us spend mair time gettin the verb concord richt. Deed, the feck
ark editin the text haes been verb furms an relatives. Tho the c
taen tae get the relatives an verb concord richt, an no mony fow
5 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
indicate a langer vowel. The verb is less straucht forrit. Alth
1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
answert wi repeteetion o the verb, a prasent habeetual furm,3 a
ird-order an aw, but, seen in verb concord an in constructions t
2 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
es, or whan replacin a langer verb phrase. I’ve nae fund it ya
it daes occur is as a lexical verb in senses similar to ‘deal
2 matches

Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
sh, the past participle o the verb is the same as the basic verb
is the same as the basic verb mak itsel. (No includit in th
2 matches

McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
that’ baith a noun an’ a verb!
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 100, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
essons, gremmar exposeetions, verb leets an vocabular leets. The
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
˜groceries’) and yaisin the verb ‘to mind’ tae mean ‘to
˜to remember/recall’ or the verb ‘to greet’ tae mean ‘to
ach tae preterites (simple/ae-verb past) and past participles, (
ciples, (complex/compoond/twa-verb past), which are are yaised m
bly. This is cried ‘reduced verb paradigm’. Fur exemple, ‘
8 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
din. Hooivver, adjectives and verb endins in ‘-t’ (or ‘-it
The verb ‘tae scunner’, alang with
ach tae preterites (simple/ae-verb past) and past participles (c
iciples (complex/compoond/twa-verb past), which are are yaised m
This verb covers sae muckle grund in Sc
8 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
age the day; fur exemple, the verb ‘tae wein’ meanin ‘tae
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
Gaelic sentence sterts wi the verb (fur it is a verb initial lei
(fur it is a verb initial leid) while the Scots
2 matches

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
ovScots @billykayscot Tint: a verb, as in Tam o Shanter - Boris(2016) search twitter

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
just't' me for I hae nae mete verb...(2020) search twitter

@LairnScots tweeted
control the use of 'ken' as a verb, but when they yaise 'ken' as (2018) twitter link

Orkney

Miller, Alison The Point o Tinsal, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Orkney, poetry
derivative o tyna, verb, tae lose,
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
5 Da verb phrase: actions, processes an on page 69
enoo. It's shaan bi laivin da verb ithin on page 71
ll or da phrase gyaan tae + a verb. on page 74
+ da present participle o da verb. In Shaetlan da on page 75
CONTRACTED AUXILIARY VERB on page 76
Also on pages 82, 83, 84, 87, 88, 89, 93, 94
38 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
1. Da verb ta be insted o to have (or fo
€™ In idder wirds, a singular verb wi a plural subject.
2 matches

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
@Hjetlandi Yep used as a verb he means yun too(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@Angelinekking tweeted
French walop (noun), waloper (verb), perhaps from a Germanic phr(2020) search twitter

@fairfaaye tweeted
This enigmatic Middle English verb still exists in Ulster-Scots (2020) search twitter
baffling mashup of the Scots verb ‘fuffle’ (to dishevel) with(2020) search twitter
t of us are familiar with the verb 'to blether' meaning to talk (2020) search twitter
elcome surprise but also as a verb meaning ‘to shock’. Etymolo(2020) search twitter