A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'delayed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
delayedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.486
ORK - Orkney
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 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 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 delayed in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Haudagain roonaboot ah'll be delayed bi noo yon bipass is finally (2018)

General Northern

@daleser23 tweeted
for iday? Spoke tae daryl hes delayed(2013)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
starts of seasons cood yet b delayed - fingers crossed all forms (2020) twitter link

Glasgow

Eunson, Catherine Freude, (The Scores 2020) Central, poetry
been delayed, sae that Stuart and Jeanne w
1 matches

General Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 82 - Nae Guid Ettle, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
ort wis shair tae mean a lang-delayed release. Parteeclarly ower si on page 17

1 matches

@Cobradile94 tweeted
GD 2.0 is gaun’ae hiv tae be delayed… again. https://t.co/1cdV1kN(2017)
GD 2.0 is gaun’ae hiv tae be delayed… again. https://t.co/iq4ubVi(2017)
ngist GD 2.0 will hiv tae be delayed… https://t.co/KkY3YyAquf(2017)

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