A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'variation'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
variationOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.71916
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 13.1 10 7
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of variation in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
rren_maguire Never heard that variation, beuy(2020)

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
k declaration, documentation, variation, psychology, archaeology, etc on page 35

1 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
haes nae identity, an sae ony variation fae standard English can stil
1 matches

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
@WesternAU_AU101 A variation on the English How do you do. (2021) twitter link

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
an aften gang for a different variation o maet an vegetables. on page 4

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
rdeen-awa dialeck wi nae mair variation fae Central an Borders dialec
1 matches

Hubbard, Tom Scottish Faust: Poems and Ballads of Eldritch Lore, (Kettillonia 2004) Central, poetry
Leith Walk Variation on R.L.S.
1 matches

Edinburgh

Sneddon, Duncan Lallans 83 - Biggin Brigs – Nummer 3: Cornish, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
l tung? Whit degree o dialeck variation can we include in a single wr on page 108

1 matches

General Central

Philip, Andrew Lallans 70 - Fower Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, poetry
mair and lowp on til anither variation he disnae ken. on page 55

1 matches

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
recognisin the diversitie and variation athin Scots leids is importan on page 10

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
in an flichterin o linguistic variation - whit sociolinguists descri on page 9

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
iaphonemic' ane, subsumin the variation at exists amang the dialecks. on page 56

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
, the noun shaws verra little variation, jist twa three feiht spellin
or hert an hairt whaur a wee variation in soon is reflectit in the s
2 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
€™ O coorse, thare wis accent variation in Gaelic in the region, but
, but the soorce o the accent variation, or instabeelity, in the Soot
2 matches

McClurg, Fernando Thon Survation poll..., (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
is doon tae ootliers, sample variation, the methodologies o ane part
1 matches

@jack_capener tweeted
kers dinnae discriminate agin variation in byleids like English daes (2019)

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
@FolktaleFan Local variation o pratta / tattie (potato). A (2014) twitter link