A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sint'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sintOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.82614
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21 2 1
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 125.5 9 2
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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) 36.3 2 1

Occurrences of sint in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
skipper ye felt a hunner per sint safe we, evin en thi coorsest on page 3
oot a haan, cus ye wid en up sint up tae thi baak o thi haul, a on page 32

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
squirtit a suppie o er Eevees Sint Laarant perfume ahin er lugs on page 33

1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
I've sint a fax ti i local skweel for e(2019)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
ence - three times. He wis a sint, thon loon. He saved me fae a on page 38

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - The Bigger Hoose, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
Murtrie wis an upricht man. A sint if ever there wis een. He sai on page 109

1 matches

General Northern

Diansangu, Mae Tales Fae The Doric Side - My Faither's Fowk, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
lexical invaders, sint tae howk on page 38

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
e think thit money wiz heaven sint? on page 148

1 matches

@sovereigndaisy tweeted
@billykayscot Jist sint ma faither a copy o yer beuk (2019)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
why hot, didnae believe me so sint him this! Followed by the res(2019)

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
than sint hame aw at fu pin. Tammas ken
Bot whan the baunk i Carlyle sint a vissier ti vyow the
2 matches

West Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 104 - Stephen, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
wis caunny. An mibbe's a wee sint glaikit. Ah don't hink she e' on page 11
hairt beat slowin doon a wee sint. "My it's gettin cauld in her on page 16

2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Cry this a wee sint o ma ain on page 23
o days like thir a wee sint swait an ettlin's on page 60
oers cry oot fir smirr, a wee sint dicht an watterin amang a wae on page 77

3 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
t'll be "dealt with" is a wee sint roch. Yon'll hae tae involve (2020)
oot it. Ettle at lairin a wee sint yersel afore makkin yersel lu(2020)
en journalism wis aboot a gey sint mair nor coort reports, heidl (2020) twitter link
tin. Think it garred me a wee sint tae scrieve this ane. He wis (2020) twitter link
Ah jalouse ye maun lair a wee sint Scots leid fir tae mak oot wh(2020)
and 1 other occurrences.

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
A hat trick frae Davy sint them on thir way, on page 2

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
An he caad for twa o thaim an sint thaim tae tha Loard for tae a on page 81

2 matches

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