A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'colleagues'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
colleaguesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.12621
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.8 5 4
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.4 7 6
SEA - South East (Borders) 37.4 3 1
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 colleagues in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
nd Kirkwall could teach their colleagues at Pacific Quay twarthree sal
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Johnston, Mary Lallans 81 - A Day at Edinbro Feestival, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric, prose
l Thomson, placed here by his colleagues in memory of his many years o
1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
€˜I’m just worried about my colleagues.’ His expression softens. I
1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
sh Conservative and Unionists colleagues voted to empty bairns plates (2020)

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
ell done @JamieFairbairn1 and colleagues! And tae aa the kids at @Banf(2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ce, "I've spoken to one of my colleagues. And an exciting opportunity on page 126

1 matches

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
am happy tae be working with colleagues in the chamber, such as Joan
1 matches

Clark, Sara Your Leid, Oor Leid, Awbody's Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
tle o Scots spikkers amang ma colleagues, ah suin had tae catch up wi
awly cease, as ma pals, as ma colleagues, as ma faimily, yin after ani
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 106, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
nch the projeck. Alang wi her colleagues, she sees the projeck as a we
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
An jealous colleagues luikt askance, on page 31

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
want tae be fawin ahent their colleagues in the capital. An so it wis on page 109

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
r less strangers tae her, wis colleagues that he had steyed wi an wirk
xistit in the minds o freins, colleagues. E’en Hsien. An hersel. She
2 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
'Capitalism,' wan ae mah colleagues said wance. on page 60

1 matches

General Central

Eagle, Andy Lallans 74 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
n. Employees taks a swatch at colleagues.
1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
predominates. In the speak o colleagues bidin in or commutin tae Belf
discussed efter bein uised by colleagues frae ootby the ceety and cate
2 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
fir colleagues an
1 matches

@jack_capener tweeted
ye spread the wird amang yer colleagues wuid ye?(2018)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
d @tartanroots Its a pity yer colleagues sooth o the border didnae inv(2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
odd years an ah aye spoke tae colleagues in standard English but spoke(2020)

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
ars. went thick and thin with colleagues and bosses and went thruÂ’ di (2021) twitter link
a huv some issues with ma ex-colleagues within. Hence, it caused me m(2020)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
l hae tae involve wir mensefu colleagues, acadeemics, libr(2020)