A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'contemplate'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
contemplateOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.588
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 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 contemplate in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
ack on wir shovels, boys, and contemplate the road - Here comes an unk on page 65

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General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
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West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Taen aathegither, these poems contemplate the gowden mean wi the gracef on page 101

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Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
their darkest moments, dared contemplate they’d wan day facilitate i
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General Central

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
t wis a prospect ower sair ti contemplate an she smuired the thocht bel on page 19

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Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
e in brilliant splendour as I contemplate the meaning of life at the da on page 24

1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
@IAmChrisRamsey A did contemplate takin a "Pleasence" one! Hee (2014)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Whan A contemplate the complexities an wancertai
1 matches

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