A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'eers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
eersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.794
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 1
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
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 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 eers in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
they were baith getting on in eers. Noo it come aboot att fan he on page 79
ye've muckle laid up for mony eers tae come, tak yer rist, ett, on page 102
ns o e deil for auchteen lang eers; wis it wrang for her tae be on page 104
till his fadder, 'For aa iss eers A've wirkit till ye, A've dee on page 107

5 matches

General Northern

Innes, Brian P. Tales Fae The Doric Side - Thochts o a Teacher, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
be. I wis a teacher for mony eers, an the time spent in classro on page 49

1 matches

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
s lesson the day wi new first eers. Guid vocab. Ae lassie his Sc(2020)

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
n if Ah was, Ah wouldnae want eers: Ah dinnae lik thum raw." on page 52
"Ah! Then eers wisnae a richt guid skuil," s on page 93

2 matches

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