A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'aer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
aerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus20.5688
ORK - Orkney 198.7 20 5
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 1
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 221.1 44 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 aer in Corpus

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Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
But their sowls aer resilient, on page 25

2 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gallows Ha - Dance tae the End, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
the hivvans aer teeman an hell forby. on page 27

2 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
s o what weemen wir accused o aer produced verbatim as the whis on page 34

1 matches

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
s green an lush an the fields aer bright wi breer, on page 86

2 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The aiggs an butter aer ready on page 34
Me fingers aer sore and reed on page 103
Thoo really aer a boanny sight on page 116
The windows aer openan, I see them tak aim on page 142
The boxes aer doon fae the attic on page 145
Also on pages 152
8 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Along the road the daffodils aer past their best on page 16

2 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Whaar aer we noo? Wir no spokkan aboot on page 138

1 matches

Miller, Alison The Point o Tinsal, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Orkney, poetry
aer ferly owerpooered the skelf o
sufferan loss… Aer they the sam thing?
2 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
a peerie aer o somethin, here an dere on page 30
Wi an aer o maet on page 111

2 matches

De Luca, Christine Dodie's Phenomenal Pheesic, (Shetland For Wirds 2008) Shetland, weans
¶ wis allooed ta hae a peerie aer o hit every nicht. Noo he wid
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
fir "everything". Ah've bent aer backwarts tae avoid apologeti on page vi
an dry leaves, an the faw wis aer an done wi. on page 10
zle!" An she stairtit thinkin aer aw the weans she knew that wi on page 19
hin it's a French moose, came aer wae William the Conqueror." ( on page 22
enly shoutit oot "The race is aer wi!", an they aw crowdit roon on page 27
Also on pages 28, 29, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 53, 55, 58, 61, 62, 66, 67, 68, 76, 78, 80, 81, 82, 84, 100, 102, 106, 107, 110, 113, 114, 119
44 matches

General Central

@jack_capener tweeted
l noo be lairnit in skuils aa aer Scotlan - ilka day A'm mair (2018)