A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'trait'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
traitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3117
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
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) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 54.5 3 1

Occurrences of trait in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: Announcin Truncherfaece twins, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
en blissed wi twins, a common trait in trows. Da bairns canna wai
1 matches

(South) East Central

Howat, Irene Lallans 102 - Shewin Wuman and Sma Warld, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, poetry
Nae wean hud tae chaise yin trait abin anither on page 27

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
aiblins juist as much a human trait as a Scottish yin. Fowk likes
1 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 90 - Sally, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
wi the baist's mait, an as a trait tae us for clypin tae the zoo on page 58
o her ain an wis aye gled tae trait me like her wee brither. Her on page 59

2 matches

MacMinto, Gregor The Rhythms of Bratislava, (wordpress 2022) Central, blog
an. Forby, the programme is a trait for Škoda spatters an fans o
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Tha lach ahint each "Trick or Trait", on page 55
uts, an sae Lake durt they aa trait me. on page 63

2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
u whan fowks baadmooth ye, an trait ye ïll, an miscaa ye on acco on page 4
wull dae awa wi hïm. He wull trait hïm like an unbeliever. An t on page 92
for thaim tae mak fun o hïm, trait hïm ïll an spït on hïm. A on page 101

3 matches

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