A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'misconception'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
misconceptionOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.243
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 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 misconception in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Haggis tasting notes, and whisky pairings, (Brisk Northerly 2019) Orkney, blog
It’s a common misconception that aal haggis is the same.
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General Central

@LairnScots tweeted
status o Scots, alang wi the misconception that Scots is something that (2019) twitter link
ey yaise Scots. It's a common misconception that encouragin a wean tae ya (2019) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
itely. There's seems tae be a misconception amang the tele planners that (2020)