A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'orthographies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
orthographiesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.895
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 12.8 5 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
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 orthographies in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
k wird, competeen grammars an orthographies, wholly incompatible politiec
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
da wye wi maist international orthographies, lonnwirds, whidder de'r fae on page 35

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
Anent Fergusson an Burns's orthographies, thae chiels wisna ower fashe
n o apostrophes. The resultin orthographies seems juist like the traditio
in o wirds, an in traditional orthographies different spellin rules is ap
ate langages an hae their ain orthographies (mainly Insular Scots, eg She
that this approach ends up wi orthographies that's sicna bourach that fol
5 matches

General Central

Young, Clive Creative Scotland an the sowl o Scots, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
d likin fur unco-leukin Scots orthographies maks mair sense. The guid fow
1 matches

Smirnov, Kuzma , (Facebook 2015) Central, prose
Belarusian haes twa staundard orthographies!) but it's nae the anely pynt
1 matches

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