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The word 'apostrophes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
apostrophesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.21710
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 12 9 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of apostrophes in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
e set oot for ance an aa that apostrophes staunin for what wis like let
rt bein blinndit wi ower mony apostrophes like in the langsyne, it's bl
wer an abuin the scomfishin o apostrophes. The resultin orthographies s
3 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
s tae be furthset, some o the apostrophes cuid dae wi bein walit oot. T
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
ackwarts tae avoid apologetic apostrophes, bit fir some Glaswegian cont on page vi

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
Apostrophes on page 2
Apostrophes on page 32

4 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
esultit only in the drappin o apostrophes (as in a', fu', etc.). This i on page 56

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
hat is nocht but a ‘spray o apostrophes’ (an leain oot the actual a
’ (an leain oot the actual apostrophes disna mak nae differ). Bit we
2 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ng thaim the reddin oot o the apostrophes that merks Scots as a byleid
1 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
a peck o’ maut’ (pace the apostrophes – dinnae get me startit on
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, newspaper
ts the day, wi that skailin o apostrophes sae repruved efterhaun in pos on page 5

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
ner Haw, mind they apologetic apostrophes ser!(2020)

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
I cannae thole apostrophes in Ulster Scots wurds mysel: (2015) twitter link