A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'contacts'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
contactsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.276
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 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 contacts in Corpus

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North East Central

Heather, Alistair Trains approachin?, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
een for tae finnd wark or mak contacts; it wis juist ower faur. Nou,
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 114, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
hey uphaud mobility an social contacts athin Europe. She said that
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
iews top drawer accordin 2 ma contacts - nudge nudge wink wink lol (2020) twitter link
is the livvy centre btw - ma contacts fae west lothian huv jist con (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
evidence, well, we have good contacts.” He shrugged apologeticall
1 matches

General Central

@Chazzbat tweeted
otstrapCook Ur ye wearin blue contacts? ??(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
ely hope that no a single yin contacts ye or speaks tae ye. Unless i(2020)