A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'preachers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
preachersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.963
ORK - Orkney
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 26.2 2 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 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 preachers in Corpus

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Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ret bolt-hole for hill-men an preachers bidin at Priesthill, shuid wo on page 28
thocht = for the hill-men an preachers that ghaistit throu the glens on page 42

2 matches

General Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 84 - The Fate o the Philosopher, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
hrawn wee git. Despite aa the preachers A sent ye, ye still widnae be on page 49

1 matches

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
n o the maist important rebel preachers an the last official martyr t

Facebook link ( 2017) Central
on, ane o the main Covenantin preachers. Ah chose Cameron because he

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
tae listen tae thur preferred preachers. Whiles the congregations wur

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