A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'timers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
timersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.865
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 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)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of timers in Corpus

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General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
davidpreece12 @FitbaDadi Part timers couldnae be oot in the bex ba(2020)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
selburgh defo m8 - thae part timers r no in the same league - b (2021) twitter link

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
, you boys wha love seein two-timers caught wi on page 111

1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
liefs ae ma parents. Two auld timers who are nuttin maire than boa
1 matches

General Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
lly1 Well a couple of the old timers would call me the 'chirapodie (2021) twitter link
lly1 Well a couple of the old timers would call me the 'chirapodie(2021)