A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'birmingham'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
birminghamOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.898
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 birmingham 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

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
me dey wir moved up here fae Birmingham, an felt dat lucky ta be boch on page 43

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North Northern B (Caithness)

@JamesAmcvean tweeted
wee bit faster fae London tae Birmingham. Build a better Scotland for (2021)

Mid Northern A

Facebook link ( 2012) Doric - Buckie
d bred till i was 21 went tae birmingham and wolverhampton for 23 year

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Te’en in Birmingham. https://t.co/2Aey2oxdZo(2017)
on fa designed this biggin in Birmingham really likes Tetris! https://(2017)

Aberdeen

Hardie, Buff Dod 'n' Bunty, (Evening Express 2000) Doric, newspaper
ect it an adenoidal quine fae Birmingham blurts oot fit sounds like te
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
Whittinghame, Birmingham, Nottingham, Cunningham.
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
dont learn people manners at birmingham and aston - tut tut! (2021) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Nicola tries tae say that Birmingham Road isnae part ae Moor park. on page 169

1 matches

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