A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'olds'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
oldsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus0.933
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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 olds 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.

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Wee Roge Boobs, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
™ ma students were 18/19 year olds an’ ye could hae some legit
1 matches

General Central

@FaetheRye tweeted
r haun...I met loads o 16year olds in 2014 who wur eminently mai (2022) twitter link

@fairpechtoot tweeted
996. Half of Scotland's 16 yr olds completed their RPR oan 'Trai(2019)