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The word 'auxiliary'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
auxiliaryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.8164
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 75.6 13 1
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 4.4 1 1
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)
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 auxiliary in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
auxiliary will, sall or da phrase gyaan on page 74
CONTRACTED AUXILIARY VERB on page 76
auxiliary verbs or function verbs (i.e. on page 88
wyes o negatin sentences. Wi auxiliary verbs da verbal suffix - na on page 89
ons in Shaetlan is tae pit da auxiliary at da begineen o on page 90
Also on pages 91, 92
10 matches

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
ang wi da contracted negative auxiliary:
meyd wi da pronoun alang wi a auxiliary inflected wi da negative suff
tE, Shætlan inflects da "be" auxiliary tag fir da 1st person singula

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
taen a fit at the skweel, an auxiliary quine frae Nigeria, Mrs Ngobo
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
o doubles as the cleaner, the auxiliary nurse, an the superviser ae t on page 33

1 matches

General Central

@LairnScots tweeted
aboot how some folk contract auxiliary verbs in certain circumstance (2021) twitter link