A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'variant'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
variantOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.81611
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
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 17.1 13 8
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 variant in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
sms, contemporar urbanisms an variant grammatical firms intae a nyo
1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Radge Against the Machine: Deid Wirds, Deid Warlds, an Why Scots Maitters, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
t whit ah'm sayin is that the variant o English uised in public lif
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
ot, despite usin this quirkie variant o gremmar perfit weel. on page 33

1 matches

Law, John Lallans 56 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
ckin an walin amang the monie variant spellins leetit in the availa on page 4

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
l fricative, is an interestin variant. The form thulmard appears in
1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
eems tae hae been a dialectal variant there wi a perfectly rational
1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
s o the register scale is the variant o Scots vouel lenth fund in t
1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
desh. The menodge in its many variant spellings menauge, menoj, men
1 matches

Ewen, Allan The “Auld Lang Syne” Paradox, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
developed as a mixter-maxter variant. Haein flittit frae Gorgie at
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
tish Staunart English (i.e. a variant o English) is twa-leidit, or
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
cottish Staunart English (the variant o English spak in Scotland) a
1 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
In the SND, ‘lairn’ is a variant o the heidword, ‘learn’,
1 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
The Kent variant isnae ca'd the ENGLISH varian(2021)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
rBooks @TippermuirBooks Local variant, a stroll, dauner.(2020)