A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'varieties'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
varietiesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus13.44312
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 116.2 20 2
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 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 26.7 20 8
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 varieties in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
st tae the Orkney or Shetland varieties, remains almost entirely rest
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
utually intelligible wi idder varieties o Scots aless fir da eens idd on page 7
be acceptance o da baith o da varieties whaar de'r seen as bein langu on page 9
en. bit mutually intelligible varieties can be naemed different langu on page 12
sam time mercenaries at spak varieties o da Nort Sea Germanic langua on page 13
Da varieties o da Nort Sea Germanic langua on page 14
Also on pages 20, 24, 27, 31, 60, 63
16 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
The varieties of English and French (and ot
eady had a grammar. The other varieties did not lose their grammars j
2 matches

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
is still fun aawye athin mony varieties o Scots an English aroond da

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
nch hae it. Nearly aa English varieties ir lost it, but you can still

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
n are but a puckle o the braw varieties o the auld leid o Scotland ye on page 63

2 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
a wheen o pley production in varieties o Scots in the nineteenth cen on page 37
y braw modren pleys wrocht in varieties o modren Scots since thae yin on page 40
s interest in scrievin in the varieties of Scots as weel as other lei on page 44

4 matches

Allan, Alasdair Scots Language Policy, (Scots Parliament 2015) Central, government
s language in aw its regional varieties. on page 4

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
get clortit ontae ither urban varieties o Scots as weel's Gleswegian. on page 9

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
reely athin a group o langage varieties. Norther Middle Inglis, joogl
1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
tergenerationally transmeetit varieties o Mid-Ulster Inglish wis furm
Scots influence on mainstream varieties o Mid-Ulster Inglish is ‘it
2 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
s no Lallans. It is ane o the varieties o Scots that, like its speake
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
Dae ye ken yer language varieties fae yer languages? Yer diptho
Varieties o Global English
le English language in aw its varieties, iverywhaur, and aw its yaise
sh exemple o siblike language varieties, we micht tak tent o the Germ
and Swiss naitional staunart varieties o the German language.
8 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
eWineSociety Here’s twa auld varieties ye rarely hear o nouadays. ht(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
rosswords, featurin different varieties o Scots: https://t.co/LUtwkhf (2018) twitter link

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