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The word 'participle'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
participleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.1207
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 63.9 11 1
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 12.5 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 4
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 participle in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
haetlan suffix fir da present participle is /ən/, spelt - in, an dat on page 36
Present participle: Hit's a action gyaan on eeno on page 44
Ithin Shaetlan da present participle is shaan wi da suffix - in (p on page 45
forms dir past tense an past participle wi da endeen - (e)d, as in on page 72
orm their past tense and past participle with the ending - (e)d, as in on page 73
Also on pages 74, 75
10 matches

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
Athin Shætlan da present participle is shaan wi da suffix - in (p

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
wird as in English, the past participle o the verb is the same as the
ot pittin a cheeky Scots past participle intae your nixt bit scrieve?
2 matches

General Central

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
wk at ae time yaised the past participle begoud for began. on page 6

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
t is the Aulder Scots present participle endin - and(e), which contras on page 17

2 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
se ‘append’ frae the past participle. Sae Aulder Scots wi its braw
1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
rb ti pit is pat, an the past participle is pitten. Sae ye wad write â
1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
o the preterite and the past participle that extends done at the expe
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, newspaper
ettelt present tense or past participle - aiblins aither wad dae - on page 5

1 matches

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