A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'script'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
scriptOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.63218
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 30.9 12 3
WCE - West Central 17.8 4 3
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 2
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 1
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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of script in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
in script an circuit. Sheu monietors: h on page 16

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
Hou expensive could it be tae script an Orcadian/Scots dialogue ta
1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
Bono, Hozier, Kodaline an the Script hiv even busked aire tae rais on page 7

1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
e need Drew Donald writin the script. on page 1

2 matches

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
ertit daein it up. Ye ken the script: new windaes an doors, nice n on page 7

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
l than pointless - whits the script big man lol (2021) twitter link
Ath you no going - whits the script lol (2020) twitter link
@DicaculusManiac whits the script brother - enlighten me (2020) twitter link
- lets hear it - whits the script (2020) twitter link
urely must no by now what the script is - keeping the teams in th (2021) twitter link
and 4 other occurrences.

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
e because ah haven't seen the script. | on page 169

2 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Lallans 68 - Barlinnie Gradyooits, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
shood triy sendin it in as a script fur thi Karn Dunbar show. Ah on page 41

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Yes Nae Mair, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
e chance. Let's throw awa the script. Let's just dae it.
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
n doon bit Marion changed the script tae Slow, Left, Stoap peddlin
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
e human vyce. He had the hale Script Conference radio series, bit
d scrieve in the tradeetional script, he had dashed aff a perfeck
2 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
'Wit's the script wae him?' Finnegan says fae b on page 5

1 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
cairried oot wirkshops on the script tae revise an refettle it. It on page 40

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, newspaper
inese poetry (in pictographic script) isna like nae ither, in this on page 5

2 matches

South West (Galloway)

McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 3, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
oan, it wis gonnae be in the script that everhin wis ma fault.
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Cromie, Willie Doon tha Wal Raa, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2024 ISBN: 978-1739905620) Ulster - Ballywalter, prose
twa oors an that we haed nae script an we niver repeated oorscls
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
she wasnae follaein hir ma's script fur gittin on in the warl. "W on page 18

1 matches

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