A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'els'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
elsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3112
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 37.2 6 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)

Occurrences of els in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
n fifty crecl's. Oneywuly, on els pertikular okaysein Aik pikke on page 29
lat syder, an diseyded, "Fis, els nay plaice fur fowk tae cum t on page 33
ur gan en tae eis plaice." So els a weis deein aat, a mannie ca on page 65

3 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
the plece ti hissel. Abuin aw els, Tammas Grunstane socht ti be
e maun lowse me, ye custrin , els ma men wul
2 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
an at wes aw eiks an naethin els or the en. on page 6

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Swallae and Amethyst (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-1-3) Central, prose
wes wrytin til, bot naebuddie els did. The hunners o thousans a on page 4

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Taid o that Ilk (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2009) Central, prose
ir whedder ye reik sumwhaurs els, ir whedder ye nivver git oni
duin’t the’r aye sumthin els ti dae, an ye’l can dae it
! Gif ye trewlins hae naethin els in haun this mornin, suppone
’t; wuidna leive oniewhaurs els, aither, gif ye peyed him ti
4 matches

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