A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'affected'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
affectedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.61211
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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 affected in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
too late. No enough folk are affected badly enough. No everyone see (2020) twitter link

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
talk = 'speak English in an affected manner' in StE: Nah, whin d'i on page 107

1 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
ey took VAT aff o it, it's no affected da prices too much! xx (2014) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Harper, Norman Stronach: A Weekly Look at Life in the Fictional North-East Village, (The Press and Journal 2000) Doric, newspaper
The others at the bar affected to be studying the decor of t
1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
ae influence him. He was weel affected awready. She wouldnae yaise m on page 1

1 matches

Clark, Sara Your Leid, Oor Leid, Awbody's Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
n a Scots yin. Scots isnae an affected leid, nae matter wha's spikki
1 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
el further out of breath than affected by a grunt or two.
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
stly superficial. They can be affected by no washin or diet. Then ye on page 2
arded, non full pint drinkin, affected bunnet wearin, rolled up trou on page 3

2 matches

General Central

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
reacher, bein hung an wis sae affected by the spectacle that he join

@weenell3 tweeted
. Property & food prices were affected too. NS said the Scottish Pou (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
e the code of practise within affected them, yet it’s me facing the (2021) twitter link