A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'we’re'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
we’reOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.63213
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 70.9 16 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.3 3 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 6
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of we’re in Corpus

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Orkney

@johnkmitchinson tweeted
Orkney, we’re coman hame! https://t.co/alDm (2021) twitter link

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ers! Hiv a great celebration, we’re waving oor flag fur ye! https(2018)

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
much mair passes forward and we’re scoring mair. Playing oot fae (2022) twitter link
l say is it’s a Mcinnes side we’re playing, doubt they will come (2022) twitter link
il we sell one of oor assets, we’re nae making significant signin (2022) twitter link
s gan tae be a lang summer if we’re picking the bones oar signing (2021) twitter link
@rennie_mjr We’re a side with nae confidence, n (2021) twitter link
and 11 other occurrences.

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
@karenisathome @Douglas4Moray We’re all in our bunkers now. If yi(2020)
IrnBru. Then telling us that we’re too fucking stupid tae run ou(2020)
@bhp1905 I carry one, but we’re talking aw day here.(2020)

West Central

@MizLiot tweeted
_dent Fell intae Nummer 10 an we’re greeting at this phony (2021) twitter link

General Central

@IshbelMcF tweeted
n @edbookfest It’s sold out! We’re hoping to go on the 15th and (2019)

@MartinBroon tweeted
hanged.Along wae Oor 12th Man We’re gonna wi(2019)
Aye, A know. ??. This is whit We’re reduced tae??. ??. ????????(2018)
@nicktroyFTOF Cause We’re awe invred..??. ????????(2019)

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
ld8 @ScotlandshireGB Exactly. We’re *all* Jock Tamson’s bairns.(2020)

@billykayscot tweeted
bitin, an mind yersels o whit we’re fechtin for, an why that taks(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
We’re celebratin #WorldBookDay by g (2019) twitter link

@LowEndJardo tweeted
broyston asda to do this till we’re allowed back into McGrory? ht (2021) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@officialAliRed tweeted
gh my letterbox this evening (we’re 116 miles frae #Hawick!) ?? h(2019)

General Ulster

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
@billykayscot If we’re locked doon ony langer ayont (2020)