A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'we’ll'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
we’llOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.8198
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 22.2 5 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 11.9 9 3
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)

Occurrences of we’ll in Corpus

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Shetland

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
@Hjetlandi We’ll hae tae agree tae disagree on(2020)

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
s season - stick ma neck oot we’ll be in mix for 3rd. Nae gettin (2022) twitter link
G83 @philip_mair2 @AberdeenFC We’ll you lot are sniffing aroon Ba (2022) twitter link
e tae like - on ye go Cymru, we’ll see ye in the future (2021) twitter link
oon in Aiberdeen. Dinna think we’ll have scenes like the infamous (2020) twitter link

@Franwella tweeted
as we dinna brak ‘at threid, we’ll be frein’s firivir #LeaveALi(2021)

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
him Carol. By the way Carol, we’ll welcome immigrants, specially(2020)
Shit happens and thought well we’ll just have days oot here. Nae (2020)

General Central

@MartinBroon tweeted
er won...??”Tell ye’s whit, We’ll gie yeez a 2 Goal start, sit (2020)
@ClydeFC Aye! We’ll take it ??. ??. ??????????(2019)

@billykayscot tweeted
e, my jo, for auld lang syne, we’ll tak a cup o kindness yet for (2020)
@PerennialUnder Well, we’ll miss your insights but unders(2020)
vents o the year - hopefully we’ll aw be back thegither amang gu(2020)
ye’re feelin better, because we’ll need bonnie fechters like you(2020)
s. Nae maitter whit they dae, we’ll win oor independence.(2020)

@GMacminto tweeted
ionars Braw wark. A’m howpin we’ll can see the hinneren o refere (2022) twitter link

East Antrim (Larne)

@Angelinekking tweeted
We didnae get blootered, so we’ll no be hanging like a week’s (2020)
it in a sentence . Leuks lik we’ll be up tae wer oxters in water(2020)