A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'spellcheck'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spellcheckOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.964
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 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 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of spellcheck in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 76, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
went into overdrive trying to spellcheck the e-mail. My brain went num
1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
Scotland-specific wird until spellcheck skelps it wi a squiggly wee r
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
ckle ither thing tae lowp (no Spellcheck nae Leonard, Richard or ony i(2020)
body please screive ae Scots SpellCheck or Autocorrect program!(2020)

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
"Spellcheck" an Scrabble - baith tae bla (2014) twitter link
LillyBynn Aye, Billy, the aul spellcheck aye changes oor Ulster Scots: (2015) twitter link