A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'vs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
vsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.71910
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 17.1 13 5
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) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of vs in Corpus

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Shetland

Jamieson, Robert Alan Lallans 58 - Eicht poems bi Robert Alan Jamieson, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
Glæmin broon sie lævs o tang on page 27

1 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
e be da sam (laek Shaetlan du vs Standirt English you), bit in on page 55

1 matches

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
ther loons unrelated employer vs anabody. Ken fit side I'm on.(2020)

General Central

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
, braidly, by SNP nationalism vs. Labour unionism. We are noo
o in an era o SNP nationalism vs. Tory unionism. Whit micht ch
2 matches

McClurg, Fernando “Blood Upon the Grass” – merk twa?, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
urg, Fernando on the Scotland vs. Qatar fitba match the nicht,
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The Great Divide, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
the frame o the aulder Labour vs. Tory divide, it seems the fo
but ainlie sae lang as Labour vs. Tory wis the fundamental div
mes tae the divide o Scotland vs. the Westminster establishmen
pooer bases. The auld Labour vs. Tory divide wull be pushed s
4 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
e even mair sindry: ‘fur’ vs ‘fower’).
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
e leids, we can compare leids vs cànanan or spak vs bruidhinn
cànanan or spak vs bruidhinn. The hale biggin o
2 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
GethincJones if it wisnae Sco vs Wales a wid be a sportin Wale(2015)

@MartinBroon tweeted
Danny Vs wee neilly ....??. And We AWE(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
e been waiting fir... tumshie vs neep! Like if ye cry it a tum (2019) twitter link

East Antrim (Larne)

@Angelinekking tweeted
hinnae" and "havenae." Nuthin vs Nathin. "Turn thon TV aff" vs(2020)