A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'automatic'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
automaticOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6129
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
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
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 4
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 automatic in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Dodie's Phenomenal Pheesic, (Shetland For Wirds 2008) Shetland, weans
a muckle box o SUPERWHITE FOR AUTOMATIC WISHIN-MACHINES. DIRT, hit sa
didna ken whedder Granny wis automatic or no, but shö wis certainly
2 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
l wi the computer gaein ontae automatic. Brian Duguid cudna hae plann
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
n throu tae ma nichtmare, the automatic vyce, foondit on vyce recogni
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
teem - cos if ma brothers an automatic start al b huvin wurds wae ro (2020) twitter link

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 81 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Prestwick, newspaper
an in 'Drinkin', plouters wi automatic writin ti recreate the state on page 5

1 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
s us, as a means o avoidin an automatic - een benumbed, an speirit-n on page 36

1 matches

Sangster, Maureen Lallans 104 - The Wild Burrds Shaw, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, poetry
Cauld bi the bustlin automatic doors on page 75

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
a muckle box o SUPERWHITE FOR AUTOMATIC WASHINMACHINES. CLART, it sai on page 23
mover, the dandruff cure, the automatic washinmachine pooder, the fle on page 39

3 matches

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
follaein on automatic efter ilka greetin. Indaed, t
1 matches

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