A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'bias'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
biasOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1109
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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 bias in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
be ower-represented bi census bias. on page 19

1 matches

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
thegither an caa oot folk for bias an prejudice agin bairns' tru (2021) twitter link

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
Grant , name drops west coast bias @opengoalsport on 18:00. Open(2020)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
a complete farce and a clear bias for the second season running (2021) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
The utter an remorseless bias o the VoW agin Scotland's ele on page 49
Gien the times (an the ongaun bias o Mainstream Historie) we din on page 59

2 matches

General Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
on shaws nae sign whitivvir o bias or interference fae ony contr
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Indytwa?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
t Aye didna win i 2014. Media bias an the structural strength o
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
ng central belt/Glesgae/urban bias. Fur exemple, whan fowk in Gl
1 matches

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
urny evin tryin tae hide thur bias noo ??????(2020)

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