A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'commentary'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
commentaryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2149
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
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 commentary in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
hances at bean raed as bean a commentary on the language, a commentary
on the language, a commentary on Engliesh. An acause yir wr
2 matches

Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
juist enjoyin a'body else's commentary on here. But yis, da big sex (2021)

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
nner. I hid tae gee a running commentary masel. A neer spat a lung up (2020)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@BonnyriggRose guys the commentary team 2 day were top notch - (2021) twitter link
xactly - great work from the commentary team - really enjoyed the ba (2021) twitter link
watch forfar n lithgae wae no commentary - naw am no intae rip offs l (2021) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Mister Singh gied us a runnin commentary, It jist wisnae the same bein on page 164

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Builders, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
. He also broke intae his ain commentary, “An’ it's Duncan oan the
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
rote this efter Bill’s last commentary, at the Melrose Sevens. Durin
1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
The 2015 commentary (o coorse) ascribes male auth
We could gang on. Commentary on the ither anonymous poems
2 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
it. That steaming wuz good ?? commentary and awe. Tap bloke ??(2020)

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