A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'onyhing'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
onyhingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3114
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 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 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)
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 onyhing in Corpus

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West Central

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
n fae view o’ onybody an’ onyhing doon there. An’ the first t
1 matches

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
e? They dinnae feel they’ve onyhing tae be free frae. They hink i
1 matches

General Central

McDermid, Val The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Gowd Breeks, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
nd o his silks and satins and onyhing that could be gussied up wi f on page 56
richt. "What if Ah cannae see onyhing? A'bdy wid think ah'm glaikit on page 60
white as snaw. "Ah cannae see onyhing, but if ah tell the High Heid on page 61

4 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
n her richt mind, or cin mind onyhing aboot it. Ah widnae let masel(2020)
y mair tae dae wi cratin than onyhing.(2020)
g Brother, but Ah cannae mind onyhing fae that year wi ony clarity.(2020)
@capnbobfrapples Ur ye daein onyhing wi the shells?(2020)

South East (Borders)

@cammyrudkin tweeted
@jamieginger173 eel dae onyhing no ti work #yiralazybastard(2012)