A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'idioms'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
idiomsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.275
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of idioms in Corpus

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General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
lexities and potential of the idioms of Scottish speech'. The medi on page 44

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
T HOO YE PIT IT. Oor sheed on Idioms, wrutten bi Christie Williams on page 5
it. Please see the Grammar an Idioms sheeds for mair information. on page 13

2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
Idioms/seyins
rt English has monie distinct idioms and seyins, monie o which com
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@jack_capener tweeted
aw tae dae a feature on Scots idioms sic as this yin thit aab'dy c(2019)

East Antrim (Larne)

@Angelinekking tweeted
lairnt me a wheen o words and idioms in #ulsterscots! Thank you to(2020)