A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'singular'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
singularOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.9337
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 104.6 18 2
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
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 17.1 13 3
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of singular in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
Maist nouns can idder be idda singular (exactly een o da entity) or on page 49
der spaek aboot ee body (idda singular) or tae mair as ee body (idda on page 52
sed tae spaek aboot ee body (singular addressee) whaaras da siccint on page 54
at sum fokk øses du fir ony singular addressee in Shaetlan (whidde on page 55
SINGULAR PLURAL on page 57
Also on pages 58, 65, 71, 92, 94
16 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
parked.’ In idder wirds, a singular verb wi a plural subject.
1 matches

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
xiliary tag fir da 1st person singular: A'm here, amn I? (firnenst d

Ayrshire

Lehane, Matt La Le La Le La Iron Mountain, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
endorse their singular dogmas
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
s for tae mak a third-person singular tense o the verb (He fechts) on page 21
s the uiss o the third-person singular version o the verb, even whan on page 24
made plural in Soothron bides singular. For an instance: on page 27

4 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
Scots grammatical feature o a singular noon (year) efter a plural nu
Scots grammar forby: fae the singular verb endins in - s efter a pl
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
Singular Nouns
Baith Gaelic and Scots yaise singular nouns in certain contexts wha
tent: Gaelic bliadhna is the singular form o “year”. The plural
aein yin. Compare Gaelic thu (singular) and sibh (plural) and Scots
bh (plural) and Scots you/ye (singular) and youse (plural) wi Englis
6 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
estly thocht "pakora" wis the singular an plural, like "fish" or "sh(2020)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
fir a lang time acause o the singular CSA. A sad loss an a grand li(2020)