A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ddin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ddinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.273
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 1
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of ddin in Corpus

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Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
sheep gyaan whaar we likit an ddin whit we likit. An da budder d on page 59
an telt dem dat since dey wir ddin richt he wid spare dem ony bu on page 71
ist ir dem dat git budder fir ddin richt dey'll hae dir rewaard. on page 88
no lik idder fock dat ir ill-ddin an ill-vaandit. Göd kens I d on page 129

4 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
she exclaimt. “Quhit wis he ddin rinnin aroon?”
she sayed. “Quhit is thoo ddin here, Raggle?”
2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
a same wye, whan ye dae ma bïddin, ye shud say: 'We'r naethin o on page 99

1 matches

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