Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'nith'

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Use in varieties of Scots

nith	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.7	12	4
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central	9.2	2	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	12.5	2	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.7	2	1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	83.4	6	1
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 nith in Corpus

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West Central

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
the brig, across the swollen Nith, on page 219

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
the brig, across the swollen Nith, on page 12

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Galloway tae paddle the River Nith . Efter makin’ the “Transf
�Cauthe A’ think it ith the Nith !”
2 matches

General Central

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
ble ferm set atween the River Nith an the Kirkconnel road whaur on page 17

2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Nith no river, cowp no mess on page 15
Here bi, the Nith this drift o Ayrshire sits on page 50
e again fae Carsethorn up the Nith in train, on page 77

6 matches