A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'place-names'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
place-namesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1106
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 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 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 3
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 place-names in Corpus

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Shetland

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
something creeping in wi wir place-names an it's no for da better.
My place-names book says it originates fae "

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Tartan Tourism nae mair, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
His project wis centred roon place-names. The braes, burns, craigs an
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
o the maist strikin aspecks o place-names in Scotland is the nummer o t
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 100, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
tradeitional an richt forms o place-names in regional or minority langu
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
the Scots version Dauvit. For place-names, it is recommendit that words on page 13
r, Scots affen eiks 'the' tae place-names, for an instance: on page 30

3 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
essentially freindly Scottish Place-Names News was in kinks aboot a 'fa on page 56

1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
Hae ye seen oor map, wi place-names in #Scots? An there lairnin a (2020) twitter link

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