A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'we’ve'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
we’veOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2148
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 31 7 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of we’ve in Corpus

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Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
@rob_pearson86 @DesignInky We’ve got da best sunsets and sunri (2018) twitter link

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
We’ve nae Doric words or phrases be(2014)

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
ie was at the back - fact is we’ve nae alternatives at the momen (2022) twitter link
ed is producing an atmosphere we’ve nae had in a lang time (2022) twitter link
astonishing how few players we’ve had scoring mair than 10 goal (2021) twitter link
es in the line up, as good as we’ve got (2020) twitter link
a completely different set up we’ve adopted. The ba only gets hoo (2020) twitter link

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
ikkin aboot ‘normal stuff’. We’ve hid plenty of Scots in comedy(2020)

@Franwella tweeted
aka th Kingdom, is amazin’. We’ve aye been a supportive bunch, (2020)

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
@19Mcculley We’ve got them on the Kincardine br(2020)
@ScotsMLK We’ve aw been there ??(2020)

General Central

@MartinBroon tweeted
hance if yeez stickin up whit We’ve, @ClydeFC huv raised wae yeez(2020)
no even phunny, that’s whit We’ve goat left ffs! ??????????????(2020)

South East (Borders)

@officialAliRed tweeted
What a bonnie night we’ve had to kick-off the 2019 Comm(2019)