A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

we’d Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words0.9 1 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences32 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of we’d in Corpus

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Central

@MartinBroon tweeted
n took an enforced sabbatical We’d be shootin blanks.But with Oo(2019) search twitter

@rattlecans tweeted
ur Mas and Das were terrified we’d play with the caunles. Or try (2022) twitter link

Doric

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
Scotland. In the North East, we’d say “bairns” or “geets”. (2020) search twitter