A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'extreme'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
extremeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus51611
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 17.7 4 1
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.4 7 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 extreme in Corpus

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General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
Extreme atmospheric conditions, it's on page 118

4 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Trains approachin?, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
The effects o this ar extreme. Hale sections o Scotland ar
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
We wir unner extreme Capitalism, on page 79

1 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
d this wiz nae mair than some extreme seeming patter. So he retorte
1 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
he very same. Probably not as extreme. It’s civil liberties, afte
1 matches

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
tak a step back frae the mair extreme reforms at haes been attempti on page 56

1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
or le mot juste. In the maist extreme cases, flytes anent authentic
1 matches

Seth-Smith, Niki Chynge o sum kind is comin either wey, but a vote tae leave wad empooer Europe’s faur richt, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
exceptional an immune tae ‘extreme’ politics, even though we a
oor ain eimage – that o the extreme ideology o neoliberalism. Oor
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
language status o Scots at ae extreme end, and the Scots-inflectit
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
ed/annoyed’ or, at the mair extreme end o the spectrum, as ‘(em
1 matches

@rattlecans tweeted
dle class are so terrified of extreme right wing picking up support (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
wur ae callant, little or nae extreme deveesions o labour, sic is a
1 matches

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