A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'contemporar'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
contemporarOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4117
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 contemporar in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
“ wirds at jummled archaisms, contemporar urbanisms an variant grammati
chle tae imagine a register o contemporar Scots suitid tae the tesk. Wh
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Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
contemporar airt initiative). The twa gro on page 12

1 matches

(South) East Central

Malgrati, Paul Ayont the Fake and the Leal: Let's Free the Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
ae us the day (parteecular bi contemporar linguists wha hae lang wauken
? Harry Giles, yin o oor best contemporar Scots poets, recently exheebi
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Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Soonds o the kirk an court: early airt muisic in Scotland, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
oush. The style kenspeckle in contemporar Catholic worship is what’s
chordal wey, conform tae the contemporar European prattick. The ettle
phonies an ither warks in the contemporar international style. But it w
3 matches

General Central

Eagle, Andy Lallans 56 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
poem wrutten in Welsh - tae contemporar fowk lik Welsh an Banks. Lik on page 15

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
t o us kens weel bi noo throu contemporar pop culture.
1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
it reflects demography — no contemporar demography but demography at
1 matches

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