Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'aitin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

aitin	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	6.8	22	7
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	6.5	2	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	17.7	4	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	12.5	2	1
GLA - Glasgow
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)	31.4	1	1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)	51.2	1	1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster	70.3	5	2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)	127.2	7	1

Occurrences of aitin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
hocht foo little she’d been aitin but she seen stuck in an clea
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
le at the sight as I imagined aitin them and by good fortune I tr
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
mornin an, as Jonsar Eck sat aitin his breakfast,
smiled an started aitin the plate o mait that wis set
As ey sat aitin their breakfast Hazel asks."
As Jane an Jamie set aitin their supper, Jamie telt Jane
4 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traivells wi a Cuddie i the Cevennes (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-5-1) Central, prose
skeich, timorsum, dilicat in aitin, o frush hailth; shae is owre on page 3

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Dalquharter (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9559-105-6-2) Central, prose
Anerlie ane ouk syne he bene aitin blak breid wi its awner in a on page 2

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
hungry, an that it wud end up aitin hir oniewye wi aal hir coaxin on page 41

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
an thon epple crummel's guid aitin an aa tha wye ye dae it wi th on page 26

1 matches

General Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne A Furst Readin Book in Ulster Scots, (Evertype 2011) Ulster, weans
“Then nane o yaes'll bae aitin the
“The weeyins wull naw bae aitin
2 matches

@the_gellick tweeted
Aye @eoinsweeney , aitin a wheen o aipricocks fair red (2015) twitter link
They shud gie oot medals for aitin fadge ana! Aa that tearin abo (2016) twitter link
re guid plate o champ in thon aitin-hoose! (2016) twitter link

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
hïs mïddle. An he leeved bi aitin gresshoppers an wile honey. C on page 3
n an ither fowk o ïll repute aitin alang wi hïm an hïs follaer on page 9

7 matches