A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
countsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.587
ORK - Orkney
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 counts in Corpus

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General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
fe experience? Fit experience counts and fah made the rules? (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
cares - its the thought that counts lol (2021) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
e said, It's the thought that counts. on page 39

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ere chairged wi echt separate counts o armit robbery. At first the on page 107

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
ill fightin his coarner. That counts fur somethin, ye see. on page 13

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
He counts the heads, there's six ae us. on page 12

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
ill fightin his coarner. That counts fur somethin, ye see.
1 matches

General Central

@bigandymccoll tweeted
re-stage, esp internationally counts. (2022) twitter link