Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'ards'

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Use in varieties of Scots

ards	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.6	15	5
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	3.3	1	1
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	10.6	1	1
EDN - Edinburgh
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)
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	168.7	12	2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of ards in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
xiles hame Fag aa the airts h Ards, ghillies hadg O pairts Ie Ve on page 15

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
a fell messy business an the ards doun at the east end o the to on page 33

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Thompson, Mark The Lost Ness Monster, (clydesburn.blogspot.com 2009) Ulster - Ards Peninsula, poetry
The Ards fowk were aa ate
1 matches

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
quhat wus then Ards Cooncil bes an apt supplement on page 50
an'Ards, lettin' uisers visit the mai on page 66

3 matches

@the_gellick tweeted
boot Derry. Bilingual yins in Ards were wheeked doon efter the c (2017) twitter link
9 @GribbenC Aye, Hugh planted Ards an Greba: his brither George (2016) twitter link
;) I'd be doon aboot Newtown (Ards) yarnin wi the aul hauns a fa (2015) twitter link
@punsandrosie Loanen in Ards (fae last week!). I'm tongue (2014) twitter link
books aye have a quare lot o Ards folk yarnin in daicent Ulster (2020) twitter link
and 4 other occurrences.