A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'coll'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
collOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.585
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 3
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 10.1 4 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
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 coll in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
tae ta mak; an dan dae wir da coll ta tak in, da lambs ta maet, on page 35

1 matches

Peterson, George P.S. Nannie Georgedaughter, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, prose
aen aff! Her face wis laek da coll, an shö wis ill plaesed an h
1 matches

Priest, Ena Bonxie Geo, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
tird, we hits high-up röf an coll-black waas an bonxies oagin a
1 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
i fricht. A cheirisum coll fyre wes the cause o’d. Her
tashed bi coll mynin an i mair raicent tymes
ie peter-uill i Fyfe, anerlie coll an oneste lawbour.
We hae stane an widd, ern an coll,
4 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
coll an mold thaimsels on page 17

1 matches

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