A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'acks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
acksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4114
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 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 2
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 acks in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
be best pleased! A daursay ma acks wul no be unnerstuid ava. Sae on page 48

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
siques, cairryin oot bumbazin acks or garrin terrification while
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
eddum bi performin sum heroic acks. A spreach wad be juist the t on page 138
ums forrit for ti confess hir acks. on page 139

2 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
ous nor ocht ither! The deils acks in mukkil the same wey as the
cairriet oot grugous an awfie acks o murther an incest! It is th
2 matches

General Central

Robertson, Colin Lallans 73 - Auld Scots law, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
) an a guid whein o thir auld acks bydes steive the-day in modre on page 22

1 matches

Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
ndit bodies creatit. Yit thir acks ir seen bi sum as fantoush i
feck. It is throu indiveidual acks, reflections an deceisions, s
objectives, centred on human acks, an ti apen the duir for the
3 matches

MacMinto, Gregor Hippies, Authenticity and Globalisation, (Wordpress 2022) Central, prose
culture. Some o the hard roke acks at the coonterculture enjeyed
1 matches

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