Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'aire'

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Use in varieties of Scots

aire	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	25	81	6
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	91.6	28	2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen	469.6	41	1
DOR - General Northern	17.7	4	2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	7.7	3	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	18.8	3	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.7	2	1
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 aire in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Shearer, Gillian Skitin Oan Thin Ice, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2019) Doric - Alford, prose
ed!’ his mither shouted, ‘aire ’ll be nae supper fur ye!’
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
be updating database later - aire any words that havenae been t(2014)
! A mannie slayed a dragon - aire is nae sic things as dragons,(2015)
Aire is aye ae doo fa has tae tak (2015)
Wifie alang st has tree up aire 359 days tae Christmas unb(2015)
Aire is an affa lot o single quine(2017)
and 20 other occurrences.

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
in festival time that is, fan aire's sic a thrang o tourists tha on page 3
y cams fae Valencia. Luckily, aire's a wheen o places aa ower th on page 4
Even aifter bidin aire for a puckle o month, it wad on page 5
Museum'. Ye can spend the day aire takin in the photaes, collect on page 6
an the Script hiv even busked aire tae raise money for charity. on page 7
Also on pages 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
40 matches

Uri, Antonia North East filmmakker feart for the futur o Doric, (Doric Future 2019) Doric, blog
“Ah feel quite sad that aire ’s a lot o Doric wards that
1 matches

General Northern

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
ae the hoose. Ah caad oot but aire wis naebody at hame. Then ah on page 41
uir thing: nae muckle pickins aire ah thocht chuckin ma empty po on page 42

3 matches

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
anson1873 Jist heathins' doon aire.????(2019)

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
“We’r mentiounat i the aire pairt o the buik as twa wie p
Thai set out on thair bykes aire on a Seturday, whan aw wes qu
ts. The mairchin baun wes ane aire furm o’d. The styall wes lo
3 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
leived in maun a heistent hiz aire an onhappie daith. on page 6

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Traivells wi a Cuddie i the Cevennes (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-5-1) Central, prose
veisits yer bedsyde eftir ane aire sipper, an ye maun sleip wi a on page 3

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Chronikil o Scotland (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-3-7) Central, prose
langage, cryed Inglis in the aire days. Regairdin the styall o on page 47

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
Sternys in þe aire fleand
t of schippis was sene in the aire .
2 matches