A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'saes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
saesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.31110
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 58.1 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of saes in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
licie. Whan Creative Scotland saes at hid nou walcomes fundeen a
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
n plus-fowers an tweed pickie saes on page 15

1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@Udnyquine99 Perth's bonny. (Saes Udny Green)(2019)

(South) East Central

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
t leave him alane... he niver saes ony a bad wurd aboot ye." on page 1

1 matches

Glasgow

Durie, Nick A Scots Letter, (peffers50.freeserve 2002) Central - Glasgow, prose
egither an dae athin in Scots saes the Southron fowk, or southro
1 matches

General Central

@pmcm1355 tweeted
in the Scotland Act 2016 thit saes ye'r a numpty.??????????????? (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Tindal, Betty Lallans 73 - The Scaffie Man’s Tale, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
the 59 tae empty the shelter saes Ah could get oan wi ma shift, on page 112

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Thon beece saes mae a beaten foe on page 49

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
"Aye, ye're fur the divil, saes she, but afore ye heed sooth, on page 17

1 matches

King, Angeline Untitled, (twitter 2021) Ulster - Larne, poetry
ive aboot the world aroon me. Saes I tae masel, ah think ah'll g
1 matches

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