A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'altered'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
alteredOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.11712
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 52.3 9 4
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 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of altered in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
s, fae 'the merchants' hiv no altered wan bit aal me time(2020)

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
be seen-aathing seemed ta be altered fae shö hed da sweem ida loc on page 33
nin, but I tink I most a been altered twartree times fae dan." on page 44
said, "So dan, du tinks du's altered, does du?" on page 46
s; "Some o da wirds is gotten altered." on page 51
got da very nixt meenit shön altered dat, whin shö fan at her sho on page 52

5 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
. Bit whit wis dön coodna be altered. on page 11

1 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
rtbrokken, an da fokk said it altered John aatagidder. He wis been on page 11
oo da laandscape wis entirely altered. I mind da crofts, every ane on page 62

2 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
pellation naems ir "fixed" or altered tae read as 'o' (*Gibbie o Ok on page 47

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
us on the 'other side' - an altered consciousness. And tonight," on page 60

1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Whaur we cam fae: the Pechts, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
e Pechts seen it, an hou they altered an interactit wi their warld,
1 matches

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
A'll see ma will altered the morn -
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
The angles are a altered
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
inces street today - nothins altered there during the pandemic - (2020) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
biggin hes been structurally altered on
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
or stairtit wi a scraich that altered the steady breithin again Sal on page 36

1 matches

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