A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Concordance

The word 'dialect'

Use in varieties of Scots

Occurrences of dialect in Corpus

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
d in both island groups. As a dialect word for small, peerie would (2021) twitter link
@molach95 Intra-Island dialect still extant here on Westray (2020)

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
wir dialect - wir language, caa hit whit on page 19

1 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
differ atween a language an a dialect on page 11
nswer wid be "A language is a dialect wi a airmy an a navy", fur it on page 12

9 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
You passed on respect fur dialect: on page 25

1 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect
nces of the Public Concept of Dialect
ginally given at the Shetland dialect conference Dialect '04)
conference Dialect '04)
agree wi dis public concept o dialect. Hoosumever, hit seems ta me
101 matches

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2017) Shetland
raged ta write i' da Shetland dialect... wir midder tongue, as da g
For onybody no familiar wi da dialect, we will be mair dan blyde ta

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
ht if you ir spaekin aboot da dialect.

Watt, Valerie Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: Da nicht afore da Trowie Show, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
ertie Deyell Memorial Cup for dialect writin at da Waas Show tree t
1 matches

Watt, Valerie A skoit trowe da shops, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
avourite shops; da eens wi da dialect names.
1 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
When spikkin in Shetland dialect, normalise axin whit da ‘Eng (2021) twitter link

@tattooedselkie tweeted
ivity fir tweetin in Shetland dialect but I'm lippnin it willna be (2021)
n da idder haand I wid say me dialect tweets get mair engagement as(2021)
ritin mair tweets in Shetland dialect I'm gained 150ish new followe(2021)
ae I started writin tweets in dialect.(2021)
pired me tae start tweetin in dialect, mainly becis I saa the abuse(2021)

@HazelTindall tweeted
#Shetland dialect: Da Night at Christ Wis Born (2015)

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
nae rights n wrangs wi mixin dialect and English in Da Shetlands ?(2018)

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Is't a dialect or a language, on page 5

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Do you speak in the local dialect, Ronnie? said the neest messa on page 41

1 matches

Johnstone, Ian Tuney Loon's low doon, (The Fraserburgh Herald 2000) Doric, newspaper
the mair  Doric: the dialect of North-East Scotland absurd
1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Bittie aboot oor Doric dialect, (Doric Future 2020) Doric - Inverurie, blog
mistic aboot the future o oor dialect – a future far Ah hope wiâ€
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
debut album aifter the Doric dialect has a spleet album oot this s(2014)
ny wordies an phrasies in oor dialect - see http://t.co/OSnU62HIjG(2014)
spread wirdie aboot oor Doric dialect cwid ye pls help wi a RT an h(2014)
re noo blessed wi spikkin oor dialect? http://t.co/kA4FmAwvBx(2014)
onvert text straight into our dialect and send it to folk on Facebo(2017)
and 1 other occurrences.

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
ellano, but blethered in Cali dialect, usin words like pelao (loon) (2021) twitter link
dee research aboot yer local dialect o Scots in yer schuil an comm (2020) twitter link
Rev Walter Gregor 1866. 'The dialect of Banffshire, with a glossar (2020) twitter link
te all Scots words, whichever dialect of Scots they come from. The (2020) twitter link

Mid Northern B

South Northern

General Northern

Bundy Broch The Doric Min, (YouTube 2020) Doric - Brouch, poetry
east Scotland, far we speak a dialect
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Spikk o the Nor East Leid, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Doric, poetry
Lothian’s Northumbrian dialect, entered the touns o the Nor
1 matches

(South) East Central

Clark, Sara Scot Free -The Psychic Cost O Uisin Scots, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
s seems tae be that ma native dialect is the maist direct route tae
on when ah'm at ma wit's end. Dialect, tae me, is a reflex reaction
ocked for my uise o Yorkshire dialect - not in ma ain kintrae, an
significance, Yorkshire IS a dialect o English - but Scots ISNAE.
ah get, the mair ma Yorkshire dialect kicks in. Mebbes that's hou a
5 matches

Malgrati, Paul Ayont the Fake and the Leal: Let's Free the Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
Tak Burns: he mixes Ayrshire dialect wi Doric an English - fake ba
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
local vernacular phrases and dialect by celebrating its richness a
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
airt regairds thair ain Scots dialect as thair Mither Tung. Sae, No
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
upbringin giein him a richer dialect than maist.
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 106, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
them to only use their local dialect." Thare speaks a wifie that's
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 76, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
Yes we have a rich distinct dialect and accent, but it is doubtfu
1 matches

@ricky_ballboy tweeted
ae hiv ony power. A leid is a dialect wi a flag an navy, aye?(2019)

West Central

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
‘It’s dialect.’
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
rds - naethin ava tae dae wi dialect, the mannie wis jist a bad sp on page 74

1 matches

Edinburgh

Bremner, Stewart Haud Yer Wheesht?, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
Aye, they were speakin Scots dialect o English, but still. That's
1 matches

Glasgow

@johnstone_shane tweeted
itten by a Scottish Sikh in a dialect of Scottish Panjabi? (2020) twitter link

General Central

Freeman, Fred Lallans 102 - Burns, Hamish and Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
hat in Scotland, English is a dialect o Scots. He has a pynt: on page 59
the Doric style [and] dialect of vocal music, to which a da on page 60

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
Eik 3: Dialect sindriness in Scots screiving on page 3
ellings belangin a parteeclar dialect, it shuid be a conscious ettl on page 5
ke. Ye micht hae a parteeclar dialect kenspeckle tae whaur ye belan on page 7
leids. Scots isna a corruptit dialect o Staundart Soothron an sae S on page 15
Daena use Eye Dialect whan writin formal like in Sc on page 19
Also on pages 28, 40, 41, 44, 50, 51, 60, 64
29 matches

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
read aboot the Scots/Yiddish dialect in David Daiches book Two Wor on page 8

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
ons speirt, 'Do you use Scots/dialect words?'. The repones was on a on page 9

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Eemis Stane 1 - Ye’re Still Here? It’s Ower. Gang Hame., (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
uoth yer man, a language is a dialect wi a literature. Weel, here's on page 24

2 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
be varied: whiles it will be dialect an on occasion it winna
glish an a tait o their local dialect blendit intil the teachin. At
unity leid they micht speak a dialect o Scots forby English
3 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ed. Gin ye’r writin yer ain dialect, ye micht write gid or gyid o
ardonnay.’ Apairt frae bein dialect-specific (the speakers o the
is better for a conservative, dialect-briggin register.
3 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
Inglish. It can be a genre, a dialect or a leeterar register. It mi
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Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
orical or contemporary Ulster dialect as a leid separate frae the S
o discoorse is the Mid-Ulster dialect o Inglish — the wey maist f
n Donegal an Monaghan, an the dialect adoptit by speakers o Ulster
el, in semple terms, it’s a dialect o Inglish influenced by Lawla
it as a ‘Hiberno-Inglish’ dialect in the same wey as ye coud de
16 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
strial area near Glasgow, the dialect has become hopelessly corrupt
onybody could think that the dialect o Glasgow isna guid Scots is
this ‘hopelessly corrupt’ dialect.
3 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
an dialect variations
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Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
n’, in the north-east Scots dialect o Doric.
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wee-windaes Whit is Scots?, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2018) Central, prose
tae ithers it cuid be a rich dialect wi its byordinar wirds an exp
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
oots gang back tae a northern dialect o Auld English/Anglo-Saxon. I
1 matches

@Cobradile94 tweeted
@berni_hinn Whit dialect is that?(2019)

@fairpechtoot tweeted
according tae age, gender or dialect? @DrMDempster @rhona_alcorn #(2019)

@LairnScots tweeted
ise her ain Shetlandic #Scots dialect https://t.co/P7fp68BtUc via @ (2020) twitter link
ot says that 'a language is a dialect wi an army an navy.' Dae ye a (2020) twitter link
Christ Wis Born' in Shetland dialect: https://t.co/g1agE50CDb #Sco (2019) twitter link
/Mam's Day, dependin oan whit dialect ye yaise! #Scots #ScotsEdu ht (2019) twitter link
Wha spaeks the Orkney dialect? RT an click here: https://t. (2019) twitter link
and 3 other occurrences.

@ThonJacobite tweeted
ingle, identifiable "Scottish dialect" . This lassie is daein her b(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Here’s the Weather, (Scottish Poetry Library 2017) Central, poetry
re steeped in the downpour of dialect
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@StuartPoet tweeted
(how are you?) In Doric (N-E) dialect, the wh in most words becomes(2020)
_Ally @ScotNational The Doric dialect o the nor-east is giein it bi(2020)
nBurnett16 Aye the auld Leith dialect is still aboot but mainly in (2020)

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

General Ulster