A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Intro a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Texts Writers Statistics Top200 Search Compare

Concordance

Enter a word to find all occurrences of, for example ahint

The word 'appropriate'

- basic concord - pre-sorted concord - post-sorted concord - map and chronology - chronogrid - similar spellings -

Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
appropriateOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.32715
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 17.7 7 4
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 15.9 12 7
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 appropriate in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
e o year, it helps tae hae an appropriate eyemask when campin wi da hou(2019)
Dir's maybe no an emoji wi an appropriate expression.(2020)

Mid Northern A

Elphinstone Institute Aiberdeenshire Cooncil – Scots Leid Guidelines, (Aberdeenshire Council 2017) Doric, government
* Mak siccar that staff, as appropriate, hiv time tae tak pairt in pr
opportunities tae study, far appropriate, Doric as a Scots Leid Award
2 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
yased tae direct folk tae the appropriate stormtrooper. Straight awey a on page 121

1 matches

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
inality, ca’d Hammy. A mair appropriate name wid hae been Houdini. Ha
1 matches

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

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
more car sharing as well and appropriate social distancing is a must (2020) twitter link
shut - get in touch wae the appropriate people who made the decision (2020) twitter link
as long as they adhere to the appropriate measures given out by the ser (2021) twitter link
he people who emailed all the appropriate authorities would like to com (2020) twitter link

West Central

@annieones tweeted
us I'd think it would only be appropriate to do that in the context of (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
um. ‘’We need tae pit the appropriate arrangements in place fur whe
This seems the appropriate time tae show these two the f
2 matches

Ayrshire

Macdonald, Amy Evelynn and Peter, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Ayr, prose
t. Ah feel like now wid be an appropriate time tae leave. Ah signal the
1 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
tae redd up strang, urgent an appropriate meisures tae uphaud the Scots on page 15

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
your use of language was not appropriate to the task, which is why it on page 45

1 matches

Allan, Alasdair Scots Language Policy, (Scots Parliament 2015) Central, government
private life; the provision o appropriate forms and means for the teach on page 3
ff emails in Scots or include appropriate Scots greetins. on page 6
ations at parent events whaur appropriate. on page 7

3 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
challenged an strategy, appropriate an workable in oor times, pit
1 matches

Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
steid for Gaelic wi the maist appropriate pooers for the heezin up o Ga
private life, the provision o appropriate forms an means for the teachi
hit we wull treat yer repones appropriate. Aw repones wull be acknawled
3 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
appropriate
appropriate
2 matches

McClurg, Fernando Scots, the Electoral Commission an the language community, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
stent prose style or register appropriate for siclike domains. We aw ke
1 matches

Web Analytics