Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'diffrence'

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Use in varieties of Scots

diffrence	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3	10	5
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	11.6	2	1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	9.8	4	2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee	31.9	3	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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 diffrence in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
owel, an phonetically da onli diffrence atween da soonds /e/ (laek da on page 24

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Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
el", an phonetically da onn'y diffrence atween da soonds /e/ (laek da

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
A ken the diffrence noo, but still A gied the fer
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
n twae caravans - thats the diffrence lol (2021) twitter link
d - they can fuck off tae - diffrence o opinion disnae bother me - (2020) twitter link
e r a great club - thats the diffrence n thae fifers dinnae hauf bit (2020) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ome fowk like tae pynt up the diffrence atween the frugal, lang-term on page 23
ich in, the oil «i cin mak a diffrence in whit sae monie o us cin se on page 24
nal braidcaster that kens the diffrence atween fact an propaganda on page 150

3 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
' watchin' the same game! The diffrence wus a' in their heids. The se on page

1 matches