Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'eis'

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Use in varieties of Scots

eis	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	144.3	479	7
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	1154.3	353	2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee	807.1	76	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	5	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)	569.2	47	1
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	28.4	1	1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of eis in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
a jist noo evin fin am writin eis, majic memories. A meyn Jim D on page 1
id. Ye cood niver beet him et eis he wis say canny at et. Ana s on page 3
oddim Lichthoose Keeper's, so eis, jist wurket oot fyne fur me, on page 4
scs eit sheyn't thi beem oot. Eis thi glaiss gceid roon eit flo on page 5
hauf o cit, fin thi got roon eis tyme en daylicht, maist o thi on page 6
Also on pages 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 55, 56, 57, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 65, 65, 67, 68, 69
334 matches

Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
Eis soon it birled roon an roon, on page 8
For eis three fiddlers were aa fair d on page 16
For he fair thocht eis bet he'd win! on page 19
A dance like eis afore ye've seen, on page 20
Eis final match ma wife tae see. on page 22
Also on pages 23, 24, 26, 28, 30
19 matches

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
eis neb. A queerie thing wur e br
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
A man in ah eis glory as ei penned doon on page 3
while spehin oot eis floozie. on page 4
Whar ah eis disciples cum in handy on page 5
stearn is eis stare on page 7
eis bravado ei jist canna separat on page 8
Also on pages 9, 27, 30, 35, 45, 47, 49, 50, 61, 62, 65, 66, 69, 76, 78, 79, 89, 100, 101, 118
76 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
under shards ae broken glass. Eis angry look has faded tae acce on page 60

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
How neatly spread eis claws, on page 18
in that th Moose hed chainged eis mind, an was comin back tae f on page 31
"Hei took iz fur eis hoosemaid," she said tae hers on page 33
," said th sage, as het shook eis grey locks, on page 46
"In ma youth," sard eis faither, "Ah took tae th law, on page 47
Also on pages 48, 54, 56, 58, 67, 68, 70, 71, 77, 80, 81, 82, 84, 91, 95, 97, 98, 107, 108, 110, 111, 114, 115, 117, 120, 121
47 matches

General Ulster

Adams, Rab Yarns 3 - A Ghost Story, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Ulster, prose
o a hedge piccin thorns oot o eis erse. Weel we laughed tae wey
1 matches