A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'streams'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
streamsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus11.7399
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 60.9 25 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of streams in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
tland's kelpie) would wait in streams and lochs to lure humans. Whe(2019)

Mid Northern A

Goodall, Phyllis J. Berryhill, (timberford.demon 2000) Doric, poetry
There’s streams o’ cars gyan nose ti tail
1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
t drew oan his fag, blew thin streams ae smoke oot ower the road. S on page 1

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
0 @SkySports with 6 free live streams on offer - not another 1 tha (2020) twitter link
@ashwilsonauthor live streams everywhere n a powerfull comp (2021) twitter link
for years - plenty free live streams m8 (2020) twitter link
ilmour alas its on other live streams lol (2021) twitter link
fully they will all b on live streams so that grassroots fans can t (2021) twitter link
and 18 other occurrences.

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
Wee streams, paths, forests. Ah love that on page 3

2 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
doon there, in Phrygia, whase streams wind ae wey an then anither.
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
an shallae streams ir daibelt
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
terin hir lungs in crystallie streams o sang as a dim licht flicker on page 34

1 matches

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