A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'colonial'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
colonialOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.586
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 colonial in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
makk a hale…Weel, Jeems wis colonial sawbeens in yon far airt, an
gairden city o Asia, far the colonial government re-sattled ilkie y
2 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Rin throu the jungle, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
rst hoose we seen wis a white colonial ane, wi perfect green gairden
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
wi bishops takkin the place o colonial governors. An baith Scotland on page 98
s Hoose (kennt vigilly as the Colonial Office), in the neuk ootside on page 103

2 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
them tae keep a haud ay their colonial conquests. Fur their Empire!
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
s thocht the same gait as the colonial pouers o the day. The first S
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Colonial jesters, an dodgy airt maiste on page 107

1 matches

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