A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ais'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
aisOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.7193
ORK - Orkney 49.7 5 1
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 1.3 1 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) 852.6 13 1
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 ais in Corpus

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Orkney

Towrie, David Wirkin' the Tang - a dialect tale, (Orkneyjar 2010) Orkney, prose
e be keepit gaan teu, as weel ais whit wis under hid, for aa th
es tae warm thir feet as weel ais thir herts whin night time ca
dno act the breid o' idledom, ais everyeen weel kent wha lived
r hid and the twa iron wadges ais weel.
et on wirkin in the tang for, ais sheu explained, the tang wis
5 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
Je parle en français parce que la question de lang on page 35

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Fae ale ye have ais ankle deep on page 14
Whut use an earth ais thut, on page 19
Sae greyness ais tha life ye'll hae. on page 21
Ais wunters spread thra saisons a on page 24
Fur ye see us ais college moose on page 25
Also on pages 28, 30, 34, 37, 40, 41, 45
13 matches

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