A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'anthem'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
anthemOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1137
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 43.9 7 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of anthem in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
l alternative Scots naitional anthem an wis sung bi Cathy Peattie
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
allace an hummin our national anthem ah will be even more chuffed. on page 123

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
That reviled anthem penned bi Dr Arne, on page 42

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Music, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Yi' gave us oor anthem an' hope,
Oor anthem will hae cam' frae thee!
r of Scotland is the National Anthem, chosen by Scots, needin' nae
ortsman, would hae agreed. An Anthem is aboot a Nation’s he’rt
y ever consulted as tae their anthem? Perhaps England wid be weel
7 matches

General Central

@OliphantWullie tweeted
d, "How many verses does nat. anthem have?" A texted tae let him k (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
If englanders wale different anthem, a wid appreciate that... hmm(2020)

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
Cud ye dae thon anthem in #UlsterScots theday @Irish (2016) twitter link