A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'grades'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gradesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3107
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 22.2 5 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 grades in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
makes a mistake in Frisian in grades 1 to 6 (ie, from 4 to 10 year
1 matches

General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
st pal. They hiv far mair 'o' grades thin me. Or should ah't (2019)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
rr College after the Standard Grades an dae an NC in photography, on page 169

4 matches

Sutherland, Hope Twa sisters, een room, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Buckie, prose
She’s raced right through i grades but I moved slowly through th
1 matches

General Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
sproportionate frae DE social grades and ootwi the education and c on page 48

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
™s the publict got tae hear o grades o encoonters, first, second a
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
n belief in thirsels an their grades an results growe alangside th(2020)