A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'average'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
averageOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.52521
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 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 31.5 3 1
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 2
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 2
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of average in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
contrastive soonds at maks da average body, nivver leetin whaar in on page 22

1 matches

Nicholson, Hannah Da Wye At I Spaek, (self-published 2021) Shetland - Brae, poetry
As da average batch o street cocaine,
1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Here's the problem wi the trad wife muivement, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
wad pey jist unner £2000 on average. In the siller o the day, tha
shy o £60,000. Nooadays, the average price o a hoose in Scotland i
e fitsteps o Denmark, far the average warkin wik is aboot five oors
3 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
t least 3/4 times that of yir average SPFL boss - We’re bored of (2021) twitter link
ncan Mair face masks than yir average supermarket though. Went inta (2020) twitter link

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ocked back Sunderland who get average home attendance of 45k & Rang(2017)

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
bertkreischer Looks like your average Hogmanay in parts o Aberdeen.(2019)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
stem is designed tae keep yur average heterosexual boay doon. on page 60

1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
ing that way myself ??. Still average about 40hrs a week tho ??(2020)

West Central

Sutherland, Hope Twa sisters, een room, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Buckie, prose
We are just the average normal sisters though I suppo
1 matches

Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
n aulder lady and they hud an average blether aboot the rain and th
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
cafés - places whaur the average portion wuid fleg the life oo on page 56

1 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
z truthfully no too far above average. To pander to his love of wur
1 matches

Smith, Jamie William Playfair: faither o data visualisation, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
r up the imaginations o, your average punter. He remerkit in 1795:
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
I’m jalousin your average punter, e’en if they’r a
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
mare pin holes in it than yer average tea bag, an a pair ay maroon
1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
Baund that wis a forerunner o Average White Baund, telt me that whe on page 23

1 matches

Macdonald, Amy Evelynn and Peter, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Ayr, prose
ye caw things, stuff that the average person might forget fae time
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
ee, middlin-sized basket, yet average, muckle kind o basket, fou o on page 78

1 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Fankle, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927459) Central, weans
r tae Kat that Doug wisna yer average cyberdug.
1 matches

@bigandymccoll tweeted
ted. She'll be playing to the average member now, knowing that her (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
eh. Guid tae see it reach an average Killie attendance ?? Great jo(2020)

General Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
g words in thon tweet for the average @SpindependentIE reader, like(2017)