A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sonic'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sonicOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.863
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 20.1 4 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 sonic in Corpus

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West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Daubed wi mesmeric sonic subtlety, on page 61

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
on tae see Finnegan, hoddin a Sonic FX inside a long red chute. T on page 13
He's lucky he didnae git this Sonic FX right up the arse; Finnega on page 16
in ma ear. Finnegan sends the Sonic FX twistin n screamin doon th on page 19
cunt is fast, legs gawn like Sonic the Hedgehog. on page 34

4 matches

General Central

@Cobradile94 tweeted
@maelebir Ay, hit's Sonic Robo Blast 2.(2019)