A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'redshank'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
redshankOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus0.932
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 redshank in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Bonny Isle o Sanday, (Brisk Northerly 2016) Orkney, blog
absolute purity. Godwits and redshank wade in 20mm o brine. A heron
1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
w, shalders/oystercatcher and redshank, and peerie and black keppit (2020)
ten - wind and sea, Peewits, redshank, sandiloos and whaups warm-up(2020)