A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'symbols'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
symbolsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1138
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 23.7 2 2
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 1
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 symbols in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
nt fricatives' an da phonetic symbols fir dem is /θ/ fir da voicel on page 27

1 matches

Aberdeen

Hardie, Buff Dod 'n' Bunty, (Evening Express 2000) Doric, newspaper
ggles an' arras an' signs an' symbols, but nae WORDS. Naebody hid t
1 matches

Uri, Antonia Will virus crisis mean a fresh stairt for Scots produce?, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
in a simmilar wey that ither symbols o oor national identity sic a
1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Whaur we cam fae: the Pechts, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
etland. They uised a series o symbols, wha’s literal meanin is ti
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
raille, and will also include symbols where appropriate."
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
“The third ane, gies the symbols,
1 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
aper covered in footprints an symbols that looked lik her ither nam
1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
siblike early style Pechtish symbols, the ettle o which seems tae
on fur centuries, wi Pechtish symbols eikit on tae Christian sculpt
the maist kenable o Pechtish symbols, sic as the mirror and cresce
Stane in Angus, aft kythe as symbols on Pechtish stanes, myntin th
s is their byordinar Pechtish symbols. These are a unique reenge o
6 matches

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