A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'referrit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
referritOccurrences 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 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 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 referrit in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 74 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
intressit ti ken at the buik referrit til in this wark is Poems Mai
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
he Wanchancy Covenant (tae be referrit tae fae nou on as WC?) wisnae on page 17
Its cried Dun Ardifuir an is referrit tae in the offeecial records on page 31
indeed. An that lot - A hae referrit tae them as McEnglish afore n on page 116

3 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
e Gaelic spak in Scotland wis referrit tae as lingua Scotica, lingua
glis. Thon is tae sey, it was referrit tae as “English” or the
ic Gaelic, which began tae be referrit tae wi oot-haudin and fremmit
The day, Scots is referrit tae in English as Scots, Lowl
at, aforesyne, the term Doric referrit tae Scots as a hale, but has
6 matches

@pmcm1355 tweeted
on movit in as PM. She's bein referrit tae as his wife as thon's her (2022) twitter link

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