A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'uv'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
uvOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7125
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 23 5 1
DUN - Dundee 42.5 4 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of uv in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie Trowie time flees an aa, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
y fae heid tae fit. Hit has a UV protection factor o 300 so a
1 matches

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
there. Efter a dandies defeat uv seen me gang in the bluebird (2020)

West Central

Shoor Caan, Angus Afore we hud ri telly, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Saltcoats, prose
man,” says ma faithur, “w'uv broke ri back e' it so wey hu
1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
and new telly Them 3D glesses uv knoaked me skelly ‘Ur's blo
Nice If uv telt ye wanced uv tel't ye twice Ye should lear
ah’d been oan a boat ah’d uv avoided the galley
3 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Uv course em gonna tell yi lehs on page 19
Uv course em gonna on page 20
eh think eh must-uv been geein misel on page 104

4 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
e lift. "C'moan! Hurry up! We uv tae get gaun! Hoo mony bairns on page 161

1 matches

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