Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sec'

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Use in varieties of Scots

sec	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3	10	5
ORK - Orkney
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	21	2	1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central	8.9	2	2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire	21.4	2	1
LAL - General Central	5.3	4	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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sec 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.

Aberdeen

McGregor, Iain Lallans 77 - Farquhar, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
tae the coal-cowp tae howk a sec o coal for ma mither's hoose on page 99

2 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
e an apparently thir gaun tae sec a musical thegether. So yiv g on page 169

1 matches

Pennie, Len The year A shouldnae hae had, (tictok 2022) Central - Kilmarnock, poetry
n me yer ears fur a totie wee sec til I tell yous a story ae mi
1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
in a warkin daiss faimily in Sec tland in the middle o the Twi on page 11
e threapit regularly that the Sec ts were bein subsidised by th on page 14

2 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 87 - The Neep Lantern, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Central, prose
eeze iz up on his back like a sec o coal, syne wyde ower tae th on page 22

1 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
en me yer ears fur a toty wee sec, till A gie yous a story ae m on page 92

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 79 - The Ratton, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
is tae pit thaim in a hessian-sec alang wi a hivvie stane, teth on page 82

1 matches

@iainnicol tweeted
hlabour Gaunna be an exciting SEC meetin.(2020)