Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'detectives'

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Use in varieties of Scots

detectives	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	2.2	7	2
ORK - Orkney
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	8	6	1
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 detectives in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
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General Central

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
tae mak oor dream come true. Detectives, ye see, are born that wey. R on page 1
e splerin questions end up as detectives, because that's whit detectiv on page 6
DETECTIVES sometimes say yin tae anither on page 23
ither. Yon's a lesson that aw detectives learn richt early in their ca on page 49
ther folk. That's somethin aw detectives ken, and although she had ain on page 63

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