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The word 'ought'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
oughtOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4138
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 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 62.4 5 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 ought in Corpus

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Mid Northern B

Fowler, Ross Sunday Fitba wi ma Faither, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
move quick enough cos the bac ought him smack bang richt in his f
1 matches

Aberdeen

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
Bit the Mart is far it ought tae be, on page 29

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
f for a language! I never saw ought like it, man; for it is wi th
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Yi ought ti be ashamed on page 108

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
oasst her mind that she mebbe ought tae've wunnert at this, bit a on page 7

1 matches

General Central

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
"ought not to be speaking that way"?
"it ought to be."
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
version tae ‘must’ and ‘ought’ as modal verbs in SSE in f
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
tae b' managed? Ah suppose Ah ought tae eat or drink sommit or it on page 41
, deid seriously, "Ah hink ee ought tae tell iz whae ee are, firr on page 44
teeth, sae she felt that eet ought tae b' treated wi respect. on page 62
e was gie dootful whether she ought no tae he doon oan hur face l on page 78

5 matches

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