A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ense'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
enseOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.5157
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 60.6 5 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of ense 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.

General Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
at aabody or ense Black Douglas follaein his he on page 36

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
n ahint trees-an doun lums-or ense ye cwidna hae kent aat!" on page 78
dee aat," said the Keing, "or ense he'd hae wan here first. Fous on page 94

2 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 62 - Blue Lift Snaw, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
nts tae pit my niv in’t. Or ense no, Faither, I ken. Whaur dis
1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Till Houletgless an the Soond o Money, (The Scores 2018) Central, prose
in the burgh, an wi naewhaur ense tae gan, the reackoning o his
could manage better somewhaur ense, ah widna stint ye.”
h’ll dae ma eatin somewhaur ense.”
3 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traivells wi a Cuddie i the Cevennes (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-5-1) Central, prose
uist as weill bade oniewhaurs ense in this mukkil warld, it aras on page 1

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
Sets aff, awa. Whit ense is left tae say. on page 44

1 matches

General Central

Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
tert dreams, an God kens whit ense. A record brakin bleester sae on page 1

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ma hamelt langage than ochts ense, kis eet’s i ma bluid/genes
ense: nae matter whae thay happint
ochts ense. (black aa owre, hat an shuin
some fock, thit spoke nochts ense bot Border Lallans i thair
order Lallans Tung, tae buit. Ense the hail o oor auld “Border
5 matches

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