Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'telescope'

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Use in varieties of Scots

telescope	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5.9	19	8
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)	105.5	3	1
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	16.3	3	1
AYR - Ayrshire	26.2	2	1
LAL - General Central	6.7	5	3
SEA - South East (Borders)	37.4	3	1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)	94.2	3	1
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 telescope in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
A wish A could shut up lek a telescope! A think A could, if A only k on page 11
"A mosst be shuttan up lek a telescope." on page 13
A'm openan oot lek e beegest telescope at ever wis! Cheerio, feet!" on page 15

3 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
ah could shut masel up like a telescope! Ah hink ah could dae it, tae on page 12
"Ah must be shuttin up like a telescope." on page 13
m openin oot like the biggest telescope there ever wis! Cheeri-bye, f on page 16

3 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
I wish I cuid shut up like a telescope! I think I cuid, gin I juist on page 12
"I must be shuttin up like a telescope." on page 13

2 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
e can scarce see them throu a telescope. Whan an astronomer discovers on page 18

2 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 62 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
dounlades an analeezes radio telescope data. Its a speicial kind o s
warld’s muckle-maist radio telescope .
2 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
ho.. That's the Hubble Space Telescope done.. :) Enjoying this Lego (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
h wish Ah could shut up lik a telescope! Ah hink Ah could, if only Ah on page 11
"Ah must b' squishin up lik a telescope!" on page 13
Ah'm openin oot lik th hugest telescope e'er! Cheerio, feet!" (fur wh on page 15

3 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
hoo A wish A cud shut up lk a telescope! A think A cud, if A ome knew on page 12
. "A maun be shuttin up lik a telescope!" on page 13
enin oot lik the maist muckle telescope that iver wus! Guid-bye, feet on page 16

3 matches