Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'usage'

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Use in varieties of Scots

usage	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.3	11	9
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	17.4	3	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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.2	1	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	5.3	4	4
SEA - South East (Borders)	12.1	1	1
SWE - South West (Galloway)	27.9	2	2
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 usage in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
ds is recordit in Grammar and Usage of the Shetland Dialect (GUSD
n doon - laek in Grammar and Usage of the Shetland Dialect, or o
Ayrshire speech, Caithnessian usage , Lallans or Doric.
3 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
h devices became in universal usage . It was small. Compact, as wa
1 matches

General Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
nce amang thir plays in their usage here. Robert McCleish and Ena
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@Chazzbat tweeted
questioned it. It fell oot o usage as Ah got aulder, so it didna(2020)

@fairpechtoot tweeted
like in Scots, like? Does usage, like, vary in frequency acco(2019)

@LairnScots tweeted
raw example o Scots in modern usage. Teachers - Tweet yer lesson (2017) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
The simple answer is language usage amongst NE and Sooth is a muc(2020)

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
Durham whaur they deed o ill-usage an starvation. They're buirit on page 35

1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
le on"? Nup, completely wrong usage.(2020)