A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'classics'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
classicsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.41816
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 1
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 8
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of classics 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.

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
o an art gallery. The sixties classics are doonstairs. Upstairs, stu
1 matches

General Northern

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
o politics an philosophy and classics. And I’ll spik awa tae thes
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
his accordion & I sang a few classics. Bit the day ma heed is nae g(2017)
a wee singalong tae some auld classics fae the 50’s! Yon blooming y(2019)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 106, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
bi Robert Louis Stevenson an classics o English leeteratur includin
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
now watching all the old firm classics oan the badger loyal - simpl (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
s usual set list, aw the auld classics, but then the music changes. on page 7

1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
rary level wes a series cried Classics Comics/Classics Mlustrated th on page 23

2 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ettin major pleys whether the classics o Molière ir Rostand's Cyran on page 40

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Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
AN' THEIR KIDS AN! THE TORREY CLASSICS - SLICK, ROCKY SAM AND SUNDA on page

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McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
plays: owersettins o European classics, warks o the lang-heidit play on page 127

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Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
though I was...’ (Canongate Classics edeetion, p. 51); ‘the day
1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
n a guid grundin in the Scots classics, but thir days it’s as like
1 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
naissance and a scholar o the Classics forby, Young wadnae be expeck
1 matches

Wilson, Rab A centre of undeemous excellence fir Scots leid, (The National 2017) Central, newspaper
atest instalment o Roald Dahl classics, Chairlie an the Chocolate Wo
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
ide translations o Roald Dahl classics, as well as hunners o ither t (2018) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@officialAliRed tweeted
good order afore I tackle the classics!(2020)