A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ants'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
antsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.555
ORK - Orkney
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
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)
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 ants in Corpus

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General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Armies o' ants climmin in yer pants on page 135

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Paul alweys seems like he hus ants in his pants when Aldo's name on page 34

1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
echoes white ants whusperin through wuid. on page 16

1 matches

Glasgow

Logan, Kirsty Lego, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
ncils gan, as if a wee army o ants wis stormin through the room.
1 matches

General Central

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
for keepin the deil's driver ants awa! A fella Scot, dumfoondit on page 11

1 matches

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