A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'articles'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
articlesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.42419
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.7 5 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.3 7 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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of articles in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
da functional classes, dat is articles (wirds at indicates if sumthi on page 46
4.4.1 Articles on page 61
Indefinite articles is øsed whin da entity bein on page 62

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Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
ene o his ‘Nippy Sweetie’ articles i da Shetland Times. He write
1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Manson, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Doric - Dumfries, poetry
ontributed ower 40 essays and articles oan MacDiarmid and ither Scot on page 109

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
o the art computer deein his articles for the local paper, wi Mithe on page 94

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@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
Media articles in Scots are a grand resource (2020) twitter link

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - Beggerey’s Greenhoose, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
mair ambitious an interestin articles.’
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(South) East Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
eas, sae collections o column articles can be gey guid things. on page 97

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Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
e ‘wrong’ wi printin mair articles in Scots aboot any subject? M
cots aboot any subject? Maist articles in Scots are still aboot Scot
ts; we need tae start printin articles in Scots aboot anythin, after
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ing a great job with all your articles on the amateur game - b oan (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Bremner, Stewart Haud Yer Wheesht?, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
a couple o bonnie Scots leid articles in Bella Caledonia. Sara Clar
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
, thir memorised, drafted fae articles. No the excitin creative exch on page 3

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General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
er editors write and maintain articles with precise and consistent l on page 9

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Holton, Brian Lallans 67 - The Nine Sangs: Brian Holton, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
frae the Chinese, as weill as articles an essays anent owresettin.) on page 32

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Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
er the law, Rights for Nature articles acknowledge that nature in al
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Fitt, Matthew Fae Mooth tae Page, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central, blog
ots is written doon, the mair articles and comment folk see in Scots
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@alistairdunn tweeted
it's started. folk posting articles fae years ago on facebook tel(2014)

@jax6754 tweeted
ching Course, reading website articles. Meeting freends later oan???(2014)

@LairnScots tweeted
n that ye can read some o oor articles in #Scots? Jist click the 'Vi (2021) twitter link

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
he cool wather, but the onlie articles Maisie had that leukt decent on page 18

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