A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'aicht'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
aichtOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.8359
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 17.7 7 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 209.7 16 1
LAL - General Central 10.6 8 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 aicht in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
he reached the landfill aboot aicht miles awa that he realised I
1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
n get the pairty stairted fae aicht o'clock! Then, ivery day, at on page 4

1 matches

(South) East Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 90 - Serendipity, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
'Quaarter tae aicht. Whit time's it noo?' on page 27

3 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
In aw hes aicht yeirs, WuIIie’d nivver haen
d sair hert scaud fir a wheen aicht yeir aulds an gart ane ir twa
2 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - Bellin the Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Ormiston, prose
“I gaed deif whan I wis aicht year auld,” signs she. She
he quait Kirk Loan, the raw o aicht hooses staunin isolate, “it
2 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
Ah'm wan in near aicht billion fowk on page 24

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
he government brocht a host o aicht thousan wild an barbarous Hie on page 33
e Reverend Richard Cameron an aicht o his followers. Stout Dauvit on page 40
en deprived o his chairge for aicht year efter the Restoration. T on page 41
a month back in the rescue o aicht Covenanters frae the tower at on page 45
d pasture on the braeface, an aicht acres o croft land doun by th on page 50
Also on pages 51, 52, 55, 58, 65, 67, 74
16 matches

General Central

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
uld Craig wisnae the warst... aicht pun the term, wi bed an board on page 17

3 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 74 - Flittin In, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
Tae Wullie’s aicht yeir auld lugs it hid soondit
1 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 62 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
e ken that thare’s mair nor aicht thoosand airtifeecial objects
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Than an nou — poverty, makkin dae, an leukin oot for ilk ither, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ma mither wis aboot seiven or aicht year auld an wis deid fae fai
1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
in his middle thirties, aboot aicht year aulder than the printer,
set-in bed, weel restit efter aicht hours sleep. The wean had suc
2 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
garritted at twenty aicht, on page 60

1 matches

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