A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ains'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ainsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.6155
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 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 22.8 9 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 ains in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Doric Gruffalo's Bairn, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1785300691) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
Fa ains thon cleuk merks, sherp an br on page 11
Fa ains thon track that dwinnles awa? on page 15
Fa ains thon paa prents rinnin awa? on page 26

3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
Funcy ains, wi yalla icin, an chocolate
1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
s richt up aire on the list o ains tae veesit, acause it will re on page 17

1 matches

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
me fur Monday. Mind, the auld ains say that a dirty bairn's a he on page 4
a mind. Ah tell them the auld ains ma ain mither telt me, aboot on page 6
inks she's wan better than us ains.' on page 8
the auld ains an' went fae the cradle tae t on page 10
men'll be jist like oor auld ains, they'll kin awthin'. If ye j on page 13
Also on pages 32, 34
8 matches

Peffers, Bob A Aboot Mid-Camps, Kirnitten, Bi East Cawther, (peffers50.freeserve 2002) Central - Fife, prose
rs in the Warld War. The auld ains wir pair fowk noo an the auld
1 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
te jaicket. Ah dinnae fink he ains another. on page 7

1 matches

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