A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'santy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
santyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1103
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 52.3 9 2
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
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)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of santy in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
an he's lost, bit ah'm aksed Santy Claas tae fin him. Ah'm telt on page 29
in ta write anidder letter ta Santy. I ken Domino is no deid, no on page 30
you ta come alang an see what Santy Claas is come wi, shü says s on page 31
Oh, an you better pit awa yun Santy Claas coat at's hingin i da p on page 32

7 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Santy's reindeer'll hae nae budder (2013)
ding this was lik finding oot Santy wisna real ??(2017)

General Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
Ave jus hawd Santy pass me hoose @raiphsays @Sgo(2020)