A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'representative'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
representativeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.62216
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
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 5.2 2 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 14.4 11 9
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 representative in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
d whit could be more natural, representative and fittan than Hallo, good m
1 matches

(South) East Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
He thinks they're reasonably representative. But whit is a representative on page 95

2 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
ater wha warks dirdum on ilka representative o the female sex he can, incl on page 142

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Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
e actually is, or at least is representative of a grown up Oor Wullie. Oor
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
itish Empire brocht stable an representative governance tae aw kinds o dif on page 27
erawhilie oniwey, muckle mair representative o the actuality o life an cul on page 48

2 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e maist placid, docile fuckin representative example ay an animal conceiva
1 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
experience may here staun as representative. McLellan, Kemp an Reid tendi on page 37

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Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
tation wi Bòrd na Gàidhlig, representative gruips and communities. on page 20
set up. This gruip shuid be "representative o different Scots byleid regi on page 45

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
t that the sample was haurdly representative. Bit it may be that whan face on page 9

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Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
5. For tae be representative an tae mak for clarity, it is
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Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
na ettlet at bein teepical or representative Scots aither – juist at bei
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Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
n ettle tae mak spellins mair representative o the scriever’s ain accent
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Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
ale, which isnae fur necessar representative o yer ain individual genetic
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Votin isna Democracy. But..., (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
-votin, an the illegitimacy o representative insitutions.
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Ewen, Allan The “Auld Lang Syne” Paradox, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
r confident an multicultural, representative Scotland.
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