A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'types'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
typesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.72920
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.3 4 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 1
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 2
GLA - Glasgow 25.1 5 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of types in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
be attractive to the smaller types of bees found elsewhere but I(2020)

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
types of verbs: regular ("weak") ve on page 73

1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Fit tae dae aboot obesity?, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
at obesity can cause thirteen types o cancer aathegither, sic as
1 matches

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
ye: there are some unsavoury types lurkin aroond this pliss. Ah on page 40

1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
en has some Rangers /Loyalist types - But - they dinna get tae (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
e had a taste for the 'mature types', Me, I'm juist pechin: the a on page 77

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
seen the comments - ken the types thats awe foo o there ain imp (2020) twitter link
amily @grantsneddon5 thae gym types like a headline m8 - the fla (2020) twitter link
@JakeMoyes1108 aye a ken the types m8 lol - hae a guid yin n aw (2020) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
oot public-schuil an Oxbridge types is screaminly obvious tae mon on page 77
coontants an ither management types that see their ain interest a on page 85

2 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
s we ken there were different types o disease that got cried the on page 96

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
O’ different types o’ keys?”
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Builders, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
d explained that there were 2 types o’ current, Alternatin’ a
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
o the Silk Road, a wheen fair types lik Iskander, shadin intae da
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
gawn like the clappers as she types away. on page 6

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
Young, unbitter studenty types walk past laughin wi thir bai on page 3

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ye. Cuts aboot wae some dodgy types, know whit ah mean?
1 matches

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
The strong silent types.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
nae unnerstaun; that creative types like me cannae be runnin aboo
1 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
s a theory that there are twa types o' fowk in this wurld - thau on page

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
a pictur o life in Scotland, types o hoosin - the differs atwee on page 110

1 matches

Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
over 200 so called “habitat types” (e.g. special types of for
” (e.g. special types of forests, meadows, wetlands
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
pe o beasts were ett and whit types o crops were growed, wi barle
d oats maist common amang the types brocht tae licht. At the Pech
2 matches

@bigandymccoll tweeted
r, she's surrounded hersel wi types who are only vying fur her ap (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
A' types o' weather Jim had tae face on page 40

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Burnin Whins, (Luath 2004) Central, poetry
k made ye prey tae malevolent types.
1 matches

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