A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'connotations'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
connotationsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.898
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 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
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 4
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 connotations in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
connotations nae laetter as trowe da 14t on page 102

1 matches

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
ns, maks me gaff wi de online connotations ??(2020)

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
hiv aw goat totally different connotations fae each ither, an could aw b on page vi

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
hrase 'go a walk' hus certain connotations. Lassies like that yi hud don on page 41

1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
cular trauchlesome or comedic connotations in Scotland.
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
glish but taen on scunnersome connotations alang the wey, and is aft yai
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
faur less fu tent o the wider connotations o whit he is sayin..an sicwye(2020)

@fairpechtoot tweeted
r' haein positive or negative connotations dependin oan where ye're fae.(2018)

@LairnScots tweeted
, but these days the word has connotations of warmth and cooriein in. Ah (2019) twitter link

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