A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'items'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
itemsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.62116
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 16 12 7
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 28.1 2 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of items 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.

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
SNP or the Lib Dems, cultural items – furtivver – are aal con
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ar even considert collectors' items noo: singil-furra ploos, the on page 93

1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Will virus crisis mean a fresh stairt for Scots produce?, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
If we cannae get basic items in ower the borders fae abroa
1 matches

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - Beggerey’s Greenhoose, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
ed as a watter container. All items that wid ordinarily be o nae
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
O the 'six items or less' queue. on page 59

1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
e first in lots of individual items and details. For example, it
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
€™t. The wumman tane oot orra items an pat ilkane doon wi care. L
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
in it, I'll write doon aw the items. That's hoo we'll get the mag on page 75

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
k fairly rapidly whether some items is aye current. And, for modr on page 16

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
needin tae be latinate. Mony items – an hale areas – o vocab
tae wyle Scots wirds (lexical items) an no juist wird forms (item
) an no juist wird forms (items wi Inglis cognates). Naebody
3 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
fand that 61.6% o the lexical items in the Concise Ulster Diction
elfast A aften hear twa-three items borraed or derived frae Lawla
n, the nummer o Scots lexical items is that muckle that it’s wh
3 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
l-kent and weel-looed lexical items as:
1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 59 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, newspaper
dae ma email, an vera few the items that isna daelt wi richt awa.
1 matches

Ahmad, Nyla How We Celebrate – scrievin prompt, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, blog
by-ordinar meal, or a list o items or fowk ye ayeweys need tae c
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
’. On the ither haun, ither items in the Scots leid-kist o the
1 matches

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
ban' competitions, maakin o' items laike ban' uniforms an' Scotc on page 68

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@MarkThompStuff tweeted
ish crafts seller with Broons items. The seller is loving Belfast(2019)

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