A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'setting'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
settingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.21411
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 4.9 2 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 6
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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 setting in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
sles Scots in this mainstream setting. The Shelities who hiv pairts
1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@robertmdaws wow - what a setting to play fitbaw - top drawer (2020) twitter link
@VFSportsPix could b a setting - will wait and see - er am (2020) twitter link

West Central

Sutherland, Hope Twa sisters, een room, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Buckie, prose
thi dollies. We’d spen ages setting the game up n naming ivery do
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
Combine that with a romantic setting such as this' - there's a se on page 8

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
in the south-west, after the setting of the sun, and ran to the no
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Deid huddies an the Moray Eel, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ony UK representation in the setting o thaim. He’s askin anaw if
1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Fae Mooth tae Page, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central, blog
“Not an inappropriate setting for you, if I may say so.”
1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
89, a chenge in the political setting haed lowsed the Scots pairlam
ane wheecht fae its oreeginal setting – wis presst in tae serr as
2 matches

@alistairdunn tweeted
hing machine oan at the wrong setting would cause such an uproar, f(2014)
going tae bed and no setting an alarm is so gid!(2013)

@g_hibby tweeted
w's yersel'... I've changed a setting to following, and it seems to (2023) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
bi/multilingul cless-room setting
1 matches

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