A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'database'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
databaseOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.7258
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 36 11 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.2 6 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 2
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 database in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
issue-matchin on the computer database wis near as dammit perfeck. T
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
c Translator I'll be updating database later - aire any words that (2014)
ae hiv haud yer weesht in the database mony thanks tae the contribut(2014)
as ower 1599 words in oor A-Z database fa kent we'd yon mony wordies(2014)
rs min ah've added it tae the database.(2014)
ded has been added to the A-Z database. This Doric word means Dirty.(2015)
and 5 other occurrences.

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
e and directs me tae the Joab database stations tae search fur a nee on page 122

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
he text o the hale novel in a database, an the maist surprisin thing
later's "Marget Pow") intae a database an uized the uizual database
an uized the uizual database methods for tae sample wirds
3 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 62 - Blue Lift Snaw, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
appearinly helpin him wi the database, but I catched a daud o thair
ut I teuk a wee glintie o the database Janice wrate for her sey-piec
2 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
that wur on the Youth Theatre database an wantet tae know if we'd be on page 169

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
propagate ben tae the central database. An it gaed athoot sayin, the
1 matches

General Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
concordance stracht intil oor database is quicker and nae sae gien t on page 15
oor National Word Collection database is jist aboot to gang live. T on page 16

2 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 74 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
uds an ee tae’t, upbiggin a database o intentions that gies a sich
instant knawledge. Google’s database is kin o like the ae beuk a b
2 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
d yer wittins tae the growein database that Scottish Language Dictio
1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
new National Word Collection database jist aboot up and rinnin, is
1 matches

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