A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'aint'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
aintOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4138
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.7 5 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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 aint in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
o aathin his faimly hid ivver aint: the combine, the Little Grey on page 93

1 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
were lowsin it, e chiels att aint it speirt at them fit they th on page 112

1 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 79 - The Bonnie Lintie, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
the quisson o faa it was that aint the bonnie tenor vyce. Lik a on page 26

1 matches

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
pens ........ sna warnings!!! aint it jist typical(2012)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ald3 @WeAreScottishFB the sfa aint got the intelligence to do an (2021) twitter link
good to see the xmas spirit aint lasted long - awa n sook ur (2020) twitter link
at the eos and lowland league aint got priority to start again b (2021) twitter link
t tut u sheep shaggers really aint got a clue - time to double (2020) twitter link
- the fm n jason leitch just aint got a clue - doh lol (2020) twitter link

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
ae wait till 2015 fir a show. Aint that richt Matt? Hee hee! xxx(2014)
If you snooze you lose peeps! Aint that richt @IAmChrisRamsey He(2015)

@iainnicol tweeted
nRobert It is neither, bit it aint ambiguous. It is “an(d)”.(2020)

@WhenDidADidny tweeted
int scoring over racial abuse aint it https://t.co/0YaL1prlhj (2018) twitter link