A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ü'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
üOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus0.621
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 4.9 2 1
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 ü 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

Watt, Roseanne Moder Dy, (Polygon 2019 ISBN: 978-1846974878) Shetland, poetry
twarterit my boady wi de grün o thunderbolts. Whit I wis I on page 26

1 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
door, wi da bucket a coarn spülied aboot her, whin shü didn on page 5
ime, twa storeys, wi a slate rüf, da first ane in dir toonshi on page 7
da oot hooses gude doon, dir rüfs fell in, an da dwellin hoos on page 8
nixt year, whin dir gotten a rüf on da aald byre, an da rigs on page 9
roft. Shü keepit tar fur da rüfs, an on page 14
Also on pages 22, 23, 37, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 51, 52, 92, 94
22 matches

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
hüld mi breath on page 26
hüld in hits bosie, wi da isle w on page 34

2 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
URL abün is whaar you'll fin da maist on page 3
ae lairn da bairns wi at da skül, an even noo hit's traetit a on page 7
da plaess an da language is jüst aboot da sam wid be Malta ( on page 8
otion o ee language ower an abün da tidder an a shift awa fae on page 9
wint wi bein talked aboot as jüst "dialect", an English is af on page 12
Also on pages 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 22, 23, 25, 27, 28, 32, 46, 49, 50, 54, 60, 61, 62, 63, 69, 70, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77, 79, 80, 85, 89, 90, 98, 100, 103, 105, 107
61 matches

Sandison, Iris Da Tree Peerie Grice, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, weans
e sweet mylk, a muckle tick brünnie, klyned wi fresh butter a
mised at dey wid tak care an wüve as dey trotted doon da daal
peerie hoose tae himsel. As shün as he wis feenished, he set
upo da coarner o da muckle brünnie.
, be noo, hit wis comin i da hümin an da third peerie grice w
7 matches

Williamson, Christie Bellows, (damagnifyingless.wordpress.com 2012) Shetland, poetry
he wis kül eneoch
1 matches

Sutherland, Stella Half a Twalmont, (Shetland For Wirds 2014) Shetland, poetry
da vimmer ida blüd? -
her face’s glüd
2 matches

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
fokk at's associated wi X". Jüst wha "an dem" is referrin ta

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
at look or soond seemlar or jüst da sam, but dir meanins irn

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2017) Shetland
I will be lookin' für a couple o' fok tae be admin
Yun's aa I can tink o' für eenoo; we will joost see foo

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
nd sitting at nights making "büdies" fae dokkens. It was diff
ond when she spoke aboot da "büdies". It soonded shorter and

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
y phone’s battery is still abün 40% (2019) twitter link
ot my first vaccine dis eftirnün an my new swimming costume a (2021) twitter link

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Immer güs (Great northern diver) fae d(2015)

General Northern

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - A keik at the Swedish game o bandy, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
it, just afore the battle o Lützen in 1632, the king o Swede
1 matches

(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
d bi the name o Hans Sachs o Nürnberg (1494-1576). Here wes a on page 45

3 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
like you Duis it mean ye'll süne dee?' on page 24

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom Lallans 59 - Leids and Lieder: Walcome ti Helvetiscots, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
ettins o Burns inti Schwytzertütsch or Swiss-German, a leid t on page 5

5 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
I was to be ordained, what I büde to gae through in the way o
k tent o Hunter's spellin o "büde": diacritics for this kin o
Féðer o us á, bydin Abün,
Lat Ðy wil be dün,
4 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
for makin sic a fuil o thair Führer, Addie Hitler. Howanever,
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
airt o Trentino-Alto Adige, Südtirol, whaur the three leids,
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
on skreivin, an Ann Wegmüller wul stey ti dae the mukki on page 7

1 matches

Ayrshire

Neill, Willie Lallans 59 - Christian Henry Divertimento, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
Schiffsbank mach ich meinen Pfühl. on page 10

4 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
ck's van it's spelt "Kläti Klüti". on page 30

1 matches

Law, John Lallans 56 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
e whit's needin read; Ann Wegmüller haes aaready gien guid ad on page 4

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 59 - Five Poems frae the Chinese o Po Chu-I, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
te til his lyfe-lang freind, Yüen Chën: You alane o ma frien
1 matches

General Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
Fresh aff the Rüthbünker press. My new friendly im(2016)

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
heerd thïs, he wus baadlie püt aboot, an aa Jerusalem wi h on page 2
wittins that Jhone haed bin püt ïn jail, he went bak ïntae on page 4
ae awa wi thaim, but fer tae fülfill thaim. A tell ye tha tru on page 5
gether grapes frae a thoarn büsh, or fïgs frae thrïstles? on page 8
the' wur aa tuk bak whan he püt doon, on page 71
Also on pages 72, 74, 76, 77, 80, 81, 83, 84, 85, 93, 94, 95, 98, 102, 103, 104, 106, 108, 109, 110, 112
39 matches

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