A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

burghead Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words0.9 1 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences32 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of burghead in Corpus

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Central

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
The place kent in English as Burghead is kent in Scots as Burgheid
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
g is likely tae gang fast tae Burghead(ery) virus-wyse an the wysehe(2020) search twitter

Doric

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
scotslanguage #picts #pechts #burghead https://t.co/ePyZrUfqLK (2020) twitter link