A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ni'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
niOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.63216
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 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) 58.1 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 142.2 5 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 145.4 8 1

Occurrences of ni in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
English ǣniġ ('ony') + Aald English ān on page 59

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
y. "Aat's foo it's caaed 'fur-ni-ture'." on page 27

1 matches

General Northern

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
unes oan @originalfm #Aha Sun ni’ver shines oan e’ Telly up (2018)

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 68 - The Fower Jyners o the Apocalypse, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
"When the bleeeooo of the ni-i-i - i-ight, on page 26

1 matches

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
watch xtra factor as you are ni longer oan it! xxx(2014)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
nd michtna be ower Faur ahint NI(2020)

@rattlecans tweeted
vote, the number of folk from NI who applied for Irish Citizen (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
eriences esp huvin livin’ in NI. a feel that mixture o’ poli (2021) twitter link

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Sprachle doon cud ni'er get up on page 17

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
' wur onie bin pit beck intae NI in 2008, an the' wur maist li on page 30

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

@Angelinekking tweeted
but there are maybe parts of NI where yonder is used.(2020)

General Ulster

DfC Press Offys Hargey sets oot Owersettin Hub, (Depairtment fur Commonities 2021) Ulster, government
n be aiccessed at communities-ni.gov.uk/translationhub
1 matches

@the_gellick tweeted
State". Wudnae say "Ireland": NI's on the island ana. (2015) twitter link
UK, but are no "official" in NI. (2015) twitter link
wi the braid US at yin end an NI English on the ither. (2015) twitter link
ist folk wi Ulster Scots, hae NI English ana. Haird tae sinder (2015) twitter link

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
r-Scotch at www.census.gov.uk/ni
r-Scotch at www.census.gov.uk/ni
www.census.gov.uk/ni
1. Ga tae www.census.gov.uk/ni
www.census.gov.uk/ni
8 matches

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