A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'saed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
saedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus55.11837
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 3
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 15.1 3 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 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) 1608.8 49 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 2271.2 125 1

Occurrences of saed in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
He lay doon an saed, 'Gae the men thirs, on page 72
I luvved that cot, shae saed, on page 101

2 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
r lucky teeble.' Cheerios are saed... and shaes off. 'Lucky teeb on page 86

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
ritirs an langwach activists, saed thit “abdee sweeches”. Or
1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
an saed he'd be hame fur dinner on page 39
Airt eemitates life sae it's saed on page 44
faur less saed on page 45

3 matches

General Central

@pmcm1355 tweeted
wis the hatred in onythin Ah saed? Whaur dae ye get thon deep s (2022) twitter link
n "Generation" pish, we ne'er saed thon. https://t.co/ZQsImT7pFh (2022) twitter link

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
‘Ah'm bored.’ ah saed tae Mammy.
‘Ye dinnae know?’ she saed. ‘What aboot a game that yo
ey’re roon the back,’ she saed as she birled a buttercup in
‘Ye must lik butter,’ ah saed, an Jenny leuked up an gien m
Ah'm fed up wi BMXing,’ ah saed.
49 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
peart tae hïm ïn a draim an saed, "Joseph, sinn o Davit, dïnn on page 1
"In Bethlehem o Judea," the' saed, "fer thïs ïs whut tha proa on page 2
sae ït cum tae pass whut wus saed bi tha proaphits: "He wull be on page 3
in. "Cum an follae me," Jesus saed, "an A wull mak ye fïshers o on page 4
Yis hae heerd that ït wus saed tae fowk lang syne, 'Dïnnae on page 5
Also on pages 6, 8, 9, 82
125 matches

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