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The word 'contracted'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
contractedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6125
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 40.7 7 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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 contracted in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
oo' implies at soonds is bøn contracted, bit dat isna da caess: da Sh on page 36
is wi da verb), an d'ir affen contracted, as shaan idda example paradi on page 69
BE FULL FORM CONTRACTED FORM on page 70
CONTRACTED AUXILIARY VERB on page 76
aed wi da pronoun alang wi da contracted negative on page 91

6 matches

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
eyd wi da pronoun alang wi da contracted negative auxiliary:

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
only child at Bermuda. He’d contracted the fever fae the sojers he w
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
'At's fan I contracted i' German measles on page 67

2 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ae the Rings only efter he's contracted an STD. What's his bloody nam on page 15

1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 82 - Biggin the Great Nor Road, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
But, contracted tae supply the convicks' food on page 67

1 matches

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