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The word 'ds'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.21710
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 58.1 10 4
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
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) 88.3 1 1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of ds in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Roseanne Moder Dy, (Polygon 2019 ISBN: 978-1846974878) Shetland, poetry
I hae no time fir dy wilt göds. My boughs sanna be gallows h on page 26

1 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
Twartree bøds in Rønnies Voe. on page 24

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Wi a view ta da böds, an oot on page 28
s is da only life ithin da böds; on page 33
Twa böds lie rummelled, vod: der whit' on page 36
ta röf der huntin böds wi coupit boats, on page 48

5 matches

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
Twartree bøds in Rønnies Voe.
A few bøds in Rønnies Voe.

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
DSi in 2009, an I still tink DS cartridges ir peerie so I wil (2020) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
e a richt pair o plunkers the DS and the constable wint tae th
’. “Oh jesus!” said the DS. “Go get the big boys doon
2 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
An forgí us á úr il díds, as wí ín forgí ðém ðat
1 matches

General Central

@billykayscot tweeted
awston in the 1950s. The Nine Ds: “Daft Davie Dunn, Doon Daur(2020)

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James The Lade, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
an sweeties (whun we had oany Ds or Es) wae wer twarthy copper
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
ae dae wi it - noo gie her a DS or a Wii an it's a different on page 30

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
wun an tha waves dae as he bïds thaim!" on page 83

1 matches

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