A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'edit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
editOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.8168
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 13.1 10 3
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of edit in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
t on Insta an Facecloot I kin edit me posts, on here I hae tae d(2021)

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
eptin a blooper version o the edit! Swally t (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
rson its you thats needin tae edit - so why when - the prince (2020) twitter link

West Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Rants and Foys, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
n festivals, an I stertit tae edit the Scottish Folk Directory. on page 56

1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
A wee genetic edit on page 75

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
T ALOOD. Whan ye'v wrutten or edit some Scots, read it alood. Is on page 5
, text an paragraphs shuid be edit tae mak shair that jist the p on page 10
auns the noo is a muckle, can-edit, community wrutten resource, on page 47
zied bi peers, an syne, if ye edit something a gait that daesna on page 48
the buik A Tongue in Yer Heid edit wi James Robertson. The stori on page 57

8 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
his freen James McAlpie, tae edit the Paisley Magazine and the on page 69

1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
ou and yer BBC pals will jist edit their comments tae suit yerse(2020)

East Antrim (Larne)

@Angelinekking tweeted
hon oul Twitter disnae hae an edit button! God’s truth, ah’d b(2020)