Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'agent'

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Use in varieties of Scots

agent	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5	16	12
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
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	10.2	4	2
WCE - West Central	9.2	2	2
DUN - Dundee	10.6	1	1
EDN - Edinburgh	25.1	4	3
GLA - Glasgow	5.4	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	13.9	1	1
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 agent 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.

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
een. "Your mither's a travel agent fir guilt trips." on page 35

1 matches

Rumbles, Brodie-Anne Recordin on Beep, (Scots Hoose 2022) Doric - Banff, weans
This has been a voice ower by agent [REDACTED].
1 matches

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
be gie tickled tae be a free agent . Hondin him millions?(2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
tae read what sentence these agent's ae misery hud passed doon o on page 118
he dole tae meet his very ain agent ae misery and it turned oot t on page 120

2 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - A Day Weel Spent, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
syne stopped ootby a traivel agent's wi a muckle granite entranc on page 125

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy A Day Weel Spent, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
syne stopped ootby a traivel agent 's wi a muckle granite entranc
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
huv workt as an auctioneer's agent or as a kind o merchant. Whit on page 100

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
racin identity an yin-time PR agent wha cawed hissel president an
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ulars (a solicitor, an estate agent an a teacher) up at the far e on page 101

1 matches

Edinburgh

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
ot intae contack wi a British agent. It soonds lik something oot on page 76

1 matches

Smith, Jamie William Playfair: faither o data visualisation, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
It turns oot he wis a secret agent cairyin oot espionage in Frau
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
l) as thee (possessor); thoo (agent ) is (be premeditation) giein
ral as tae possession); thoo (agent ) is (spontaneously) giein me
2 matches

Glasgow

Geraghty, Martin The Pusher, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
like this, a act like a nerve-agent . Brain an boadily functions b
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Scots secret agent on page 187

1 matches