A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Intro a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Texts Writers Statistics Top200 Search Compare

Concordance

Enter a word to find all occurrences of, for example ahint

The word 'dove'

- basic concord - pre-sorted concord - post-sorted concord - map and chronology - chronogrid - similar spellings -

Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
doveOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.897
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 4
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 dove in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Aiberdeen Journals. The White Dove Inn in St Swithin Street tuik
1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
al issues. On Fridays, a fite dove symbolisin peace is released on page 15

1 matches

Glasgow

Geraghty, Martin 378, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ves, did yae know that? Peace Dove? That’ll be fuckin right. H
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
passenger area. Ah hink o the dove above St Margret's altar and on page xv
a golden tabernacle wi a wee dove oan the ceilin above it. T'wo on page 112

2 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
ton: The falcon swoops on the dove. on page 35

1 matches

@raiphsays tweeted
@StobnaBroige Awwww poor we dove guy! Wee hus hunners a collar(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
lified, and ye'll hear baith 'dove' and 'dived' in Scotland: htt (2020) twitter link
'dive' is...is it 'dived' or 'dove'? https://t.co/I3ck9ox0ts (2020) twitter link

Web Analytics