A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'imposed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
imposedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.41110
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 imposed in Corpus

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Orkney

Sclater, Kathryn Gallows Ha - The chapel by the burn, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
a self-imposed retribution. on page 6

1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
’t be trusted because he wis imposed on the club, never been wante (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
is the end result o this self-imposed project. First, though, a few on page 3

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
uin richt, it will hiv tae be imposed on tae the curriculum bi the
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ue to the ridiculous measures imposed by the snp - good luck! http (2021) twitter link

West Central

Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
which maks this new muteness imposed on us bi Covid-19 aw the mair
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
r apt to let your kindness be imposed upon.” She gied him a sidie
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
tae iniquitous religious laws imposed on Scotland by Chairles Stuar on page 31
nisters, appyntit bishops, an imposed curates on every pairish. Dri on page 51

2 matches

General Central

Armstrong, Kate Lallans 58 - Herman Und Dorothea, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
rder an cleanliness bena ever imposed frae abune, by the cooncil, on page 43

1 matches

Donati, Colin Universal Declaration o Human Richts, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Central, government
mittit. Nor shal a penalty be imposed hivvier nor the ane that wes
1 matches

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