A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'alcorn'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
alcornOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.242
ORK - Orkney
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 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 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 alcorn in Corpus

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West Central

Wilson, Rab A Newsin Wi Jack Aitken, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
We’ve Rhona Alcorn, oor CEO,
1 matches

General Central

@LairnScots tweeted
pp the morn. Listen tae Rhona Alcorn, fae Dictionaries of the Scot (2021) twitter link
writer @SusiBriggs1 and Rhona Alcorn fae @ScotsDictionars https:// (2020) twitter link
s1 an @ScotsDictionars' Rhona Alcorn ower at @handsupfortrad's Twi (2020) twitter link