A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'das'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dasOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.92310
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 30.7 6 3
AYR - Ayrshire 106.8 10 1
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
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 das in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
e Blume), an a lass is an it (das Mädchen). English is lost di on page 49

1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
'. 'Igreja do Carmo', 'Capela das Almas' an 'Igreja de Santo Il on page 9

1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom Lallans 59 - Leids and Lieder: Walcome ti Helvetiscots, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
ed, objecktive, raxin oot ti 'das stille Leuchten' - the seele on page 5

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
eavers party a, aw the mas an das wur there wi thir cameras, Ch on page 148

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
s stolen beers fae yir maws n das, nuhin major. Noo, we're oot on page 5
it. Should wan ae yir maws or das come roon n huckle yi up the on page 13
gination. Most ae ma pais huv das but plenty aboot here didnae. on page 38

3 matches

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
me tae school like the other das did. He didnae leave the hous on page 38
morning, fair excited tae see Das reaction tae wit ad done. He on page 42

2 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Cry it Das Narrenschiff but we are no on page 35

1 matches

Ayrshire

Neill, Willie Lallans 59 - Christian Henry Divertimento, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
Erst das traute Wachtgebell der Hunde, on page 10

10 matches

General Central

@_Erinboyle_ tweeted
poem was inspired by my auld Das childhood stories. Nowadays, (2021) twitter link
@shaggy_72 @bbcthesocial My Das bigger than your Da x (2021) twitter link

@rattlecans tweeted
ter a discontent, our Mas and Das were terrified we’d play wit (2022) twitter link