A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'rhyming'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
rhymingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.11010
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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) 2369.7 1 1
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of rhyming in Corpus

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Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
Could really do wi a Shetland rhyming dictionary (2019) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
ard When you're reduced tae a rhyming card What a diatribe! on page 15

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ha'en a lauch wi his Cockney rhyming slang!(2017)

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Rhyming Brian McCleery: You'll know t on page 55

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
erset it intae maistly modern rhyming Scots for this contemporary v
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Is thet rhyming slang? on page 98

1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
ae idea. Sounds like Scottish rhyming slang for Heinz Baked. Haw ma(2020)

South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)

BardOfMilebush Untitled poem, (Reddit 2017) Ulster, poetry
ike Thomson, Porter, Orr, the Rhyming weavers all They spoke in Sco
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

@Angelinekking tweeted
man too! #tumips #halloween #rhyming #tradtion Happy Halloween eve(2019)

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Noo the moral o this rhyming story, on page 58

1 matches

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