Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'delay'

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Use in varieties of Scots

delay	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5.3	17	15
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)	35.2	1	1
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	10.2	4	3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee	21.2	2	2
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	5.4	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	5.3	4	3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	13.9	1	1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)	31.4	1	1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)	51.2	1	1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of delay in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
merely remarkan at a meenad's delay wid cost them their lives. on page 89

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
t, anxious fir onythin at wid delay the meenit fin he wid hae te on page 39

1 matches

General Northern

@daleser23 tweeted
allumC19 did wonder aboot the delay like(2013)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Tae buy a beast withoot delay on page 20

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Ma concentration withoot delay is coordinated taewards this on page 50

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
rus is runnin riot - would a delay for a fortnite not b a more s (2020) twitter link
ting was last week - why the delay? (2020) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
oot his mouth. Ilka meenit's delay wis costin him money in bonus on page 48

1 matches

@d_anderson878 tweeted
A dinnae think the delay wis tae let them mak a guid P(2020)

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
en casually remarked that ony delay wid be an awfy shame fir aw c on page 91

1 matches

General Central

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Delay will yet brack oor hopes aari on page 24
nae nou. Delay will trip us up. on page 35

2 matches

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
air an mair frustratit at the delay …. Nae that Sir Robert wis

@g_hibby tweeted
@DW80000 Sorry aboot the delay here Davie.. Dishes tae dae.. (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - No In-gleesh, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
aboot tae experience ma furst delay .
1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
jest remarkin that a minute's delay wud cost thim thir lives. on page 92

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Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
maun redd them oot wi'oot ony delay. He took them, kist ana, oot on page 14

1 matches