A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
contextsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.51510
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 3.3 1 1
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
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 4
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of contexts in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
l offended if denser Scots in contexts like this wis subtitled: tae
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Elphinstone Institute Aiberdeenshire Cooncil – Scots Leid Guidelines, (Aberdeenshire Council 2017) Doric, government
n an leid skills in different contexts;
1 matches

General Northern

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
e used for much mair in ither contexts and I am HERE for it... ??).(2020)

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
spikkin Scots in professional contexts tae stairt, bit noo A'm graan(2020)

Edinburgh

Capener, Jack No Guid Eneuch, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central, blog
hame, wi nae presence in the contexts thit gie a leid the wecht o o
tae yaise Scots in offeicial contexts like job interviews wioot bei
2 matches

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
e warsle Scots intae academic contexts, ane o the recurrent deifficu
introduced intae transparent contexts, i.e. the surroondin text sud
2 matches

McClurg, Fernando Scots, the Electoral Commission an the language community, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
ts wrutten doon i mair formal contexts, they wadna get that wee grue
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
ae yaise in owersettin. Ither contexts, hooivver, micht demand a mai
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
c refers tae itsel in a wheen contexts as “the Gaelic” (a’ Gh
ise singular nouns in certain contexts whaur plurals are fordert in
2 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
different hings in different contexts. Is it a rubbish heap, a chao (2019) twitter link
ae ye yaise them in different contexts? Tae mean different hings? (2018) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
grew up wi yaisin it in ither contexts forby. It's no couthie wather(2020)