A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'æ'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
æOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.552
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 2
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 æ in Corpus

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Orkney

Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2021) Orkney
wundered if "herst" wis the sæm is the Norwegian wurd fur au
erbst" ær ell basically the sæm wurd - wae the sæm origins
m wurd - wae the sæm origins. At wan time the gæ
m origins. At wan time the gæthereen in o the crops in the
"gatheran in crops", an the sæm wae German "herbst". So ær

Shetland

Jamieson, Robert Alan Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
D'ir pooir in aathin nooadæs: hygh tensjin ati'sunbems on page 11
staandirt fær on page 12
læk moorlaand spoots on page 13
Hit's waantin mærnoriess næthin, on page 14
læk a sunbem on page 16
Also on pages 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
69 matches

Jamieson, Robert Alan Lallans 58 - Eicht poems bi Robert Alan Jamieson, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
He tinks - Quhitna kynda krætir on page 27

34 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
lack comes fae Aald English blæc/blacc- (Northumbrian), meani on page 102
whaaras it's mad in Danish, mæt in Westrobothnian on page 103
Aald English mete/mæte meant 'maet' as weel an hae on page 104

3 matches

Jamieson, Robert Alan Metadist Metafir, (Shetland For Wirds 2007) Shetland, poetry
on Galilie – ‘Pæs be still.’
tinks – Quhitna kind a’krættir
kood pæsiefy da storm?
sjörlie Gød’s æin bærn,
hit’s jun iddir wy a’spækin
5 matches

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
t wi een anidder. D'ir aafil læk tae caase misunderstaandins.
artree faase freends atween Shætlan an Standirt English. Sic
guages at happen soond very alæk.

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
Shætlan shaas da perfect tense by
aks StE a lok mair unkan as Shætlan fir dis pairt o da gramma

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
ions eekit on apø da end o stætments or commaands tae turn d
Athin Shætlan da tag is meyd wi da pron
Forbye dat, unlæk StE, Shætlan inflects da "be" auxiliar

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
Athin Shætlan da present participle is

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
l-kent an gyaan naewhaar in Shætlan. It is whit dey kaa a "kl
- da twa main ancestors o Shætlan. Dis soond isna fun aa da

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
in’, wish ye “Lykke til og være en glad laks” as in Scots;(2020)