A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'aforesyne'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
aforesyneOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.552
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
WCE - West Central
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 aforesyne in Corpus

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General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
is. Aw growen-ups were bairns aforesyne (thou gey few o them mind tha on page 7
d naebody. Ye are like my tod aforesyne. He wis jist a tod like a hun on page 72

2 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
, ye micht see it forby as ‘aforesyne’ (before) and, historically
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
on wey and whit they wis like aforesyne).
and Orcadian. Tak tent that, aforesyne, the term Doric referrit tae
2 matches

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