A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ner'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
nerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus17.5568
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 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 26.6 6 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 781.3 43 1

Occurrences of ner in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
sure ta be da werr o it, shöner or later. on page 13
Hit did dat, an far shöner as shö lippened: afore shö on page 34

2 matches

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
saft fur sleepin bit A ner got the chance. A wee nurse c
bra an pants, dam ner in the scuddie ye ken. Files
maun hae bin lyin yonder fur ner twa
bonnie ner scuddie-happit leddy in hoasp
ner a week an haid nittet a lang
6 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
y warks. Lare never devals an ner shuid it. on page 7

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 73 - Proverbs o Hell, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
A sowl o sweit delicht maun ner by fyled. on page 80

1 matches

Watt, George T. Lallans 74 - Distempered, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
faw ner spent a groat thay hadna earn
1 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
e mony's the time yae wil wun'ner, on page 48

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Na laugh ner smile juist grimace wrat, on page 37

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
n eftèr me that ïs michtier ner me. A'm no fït tae cairrie h on page 3
s awa, no tha weeest lettèr, ner even tha weeest stroke o a pe on page 5
yer 'Na', 'Na'; oniethin mair ner thïs cums frae tha wïckit y on page 6
ïn heiven, whar nether moth ner roost can desthroy, ner thief on page 7
k alang onie gowld or siller, ner e'en a copper ïn yer girthpo on page 9

43 matches

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