A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word '-d'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
-dOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.173
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 8.9 2 1
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 -d 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.

Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
No records than, no c-c-d's, no 'passports' or such tri on page 88

1 matches

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
e. Ta keep him safe fae an ill-döin king, his midder pat him on page 15
caad Ninevah dat wis foo o ill-döin fock. Jonah wisna set on on page 71

2 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
but a poem aboot a lear, half-dön: on page 30
but a göd-döin een; an acht ta awn. on page 100

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
coal dust and tears. Sic a how-d’ye-do set up this time. The
1 matches

General Northern

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - Poacher, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
ilidh – a maist impressive 3-D reel, played oot agin the daw
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
cots phrases the likes o 'what-d'you cry him', 'I'm are so', '
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ilm called Space Station Three-D that had voice overs by Tom C on page 162
GO-D NEIGH - OURS on page 169

2 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
d the Gryphon. "Check this oot-d'ye know how it's cawed a whit on page 101

1 matches

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