Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'adjective'

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Use in varieties of Scots

adjective	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.1	13	8
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	11.6	2	1
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	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.3	1	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	12	9	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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of adjective in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
da verb at can function as a adjective (decriptive on page 74
ed up wi da noun affront + da adjective endin - it. It comes on page 102

2 matches

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
der is left to supply his own adjective here.
1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
rative, occult, occur and the adjective and noun pagan.
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
m 'totey-rote': totey bein an adjective used for tae descrive onythin on page 12
dverb haes been makkit fae an adjective. on page 25

2 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
An adjective whase meanin is gey trauchles
unnerneath. Fur exemple, the adjective ‘smashing’ is maist likel
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
think, doot, believe’; the adjective ‘traist’ meanin ‘leal,
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
nae mair and nae less nor an adjective or noun relatin tae Sasainn,
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
aw that sleekit parenthisised adjective.(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
mysterious"? That's a strynge adjective tae yaise. ??(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
rs Are ye yaisin 'kelt' as an adjective in thon sense? @ScotsDictiona (2019) twitter link