A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'oaps'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
oapsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.244
ORK - Orkney
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 oaps in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
An noo she's jined the OAPs There's jumbles, whists and e on page 15

1 matches

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
rol. I new I’d be stuck with OAPs. You cannae be an artisan bar(2020)

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ine - typical polis arrestin oaps - roasters (2020) twitter link

General Central

@alistairdunn tweeted
Kay_Pants learned tae respect OAPs since yer birthday last year,(2017)