A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'rit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ritOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus17.2579
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
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 9.8 4 2
WCE - West Central 44.4 10 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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) 65.6 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 708.6 39 1

Occurrences of rit in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
"Rit did they draw?" sade Alice, f on page 71

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 176, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
, tae be thochtful and consid'rit, tae be fair an nae demand.
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - Bellin the Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Ormiston, prose
paint an brushes an white spírit an rowes up his sleeves an se
ion’s in his een: White spírit’ll clean that up. He gaes d
he ceilin. He poors white spírit aa ower it, taks his sark aff
3 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
sud aye tac anoggin Charlene rit after he tned it on wi Yvonne on page 169

1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Tasteless, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Saltcoats, prose
ven, an' rat's whin a noticed rit a couldnae talk, an' rat's wh
uldnae taste ma purridge, no' rit it really tastes a' ony'hin'
aw rat birry gote ri message rit A couldnae talk.
a spat it oot whin A realised rit A couldnae taste it. Even ma
gote hame an' A hud tae check rit A'd lit ri oven. Even whin A
8 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Afore we hud ri telly, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Saltcoats, prose
f rolls each an' a hud ri wan rit wis left. A wis sent ben ri h
1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie The dingin doun o devolution, (Mak Forrit 2020) Central - Edinburgh, blog
It’s in this spírit that I’d like tae scrieve a
1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
The hamely rit o maist All hae, on page 53

1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Sae he hemme rit, an clatterit, an looderit, a on page 8

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
. An ït wus bi tha Halie Spïrit. Noo Joseph hir husban wus a on page 1
l baptise ye wi tha Halie Spïrit an wi fire. Hïs winnowin for on page 3
"Blisst ir tha puir ïn spïrit, fer thairs ïs tha Kïngdom on page 4
n he'll be fu o tha Halie Spïrit on page 69
"Tha Halie Spïrit an tha pooer o God wull cum d on page 70
Also on pages 71, 72, 74, 75, 76, 81, 83, 84, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91, 93, 110
39 matches

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