A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sim'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
simOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus13.2449
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 31.5 3 1
DOR - General Northern 31 7 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
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) 13.9 1 1
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) 107.1 3 2
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sim in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
s. Cause if ye dinna, therr's sim fowk will tak ye the wrang we on page 84

3 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
Bob Sim gied a growl that made it cle on page 40
'Och it maan be,' said Sim, 'it's nae that common a name on page 41

3 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Ooh, got sim booze in St. Andrews on page 123
Fit kin ye dee wi sim ingins and sim peas? on page 140
fur a seance an sim coke. on page 172
In a big squid's gairdin near sim caves on page 184
spendin sim billies hard earnt pey. on page 192

7 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
sim fowk caa me stupit on page 63

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
tae hae sim common sense, on page 53

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Tha sim caird was cleared an her doon on page 11

1 matches

Gibson, Darren Cannae Thole Ye!, (lowcountrylad.blogspot.com/ 2014) Ulster - Ards, blog
Ay, gin ye hae an injury o’ sim sort ye micht bae toul tae th
1 matches

Gibson, Darren Oul money, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
s sterted wi a half croon, at sim folk caa’ed a half dollar â
1 matches

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