Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'destruction'

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Use in varieties of Scots

destruction	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.9	16	14
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	5.8	1	1
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	21.9	2	2
DOR - General Northern	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central	46.4	1	1
SEC - (South) East Central	7.6	3	2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee	10.6	1	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	4.6	1	1
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)	18.2	1	1

Occurrences of destruction 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

Tait, John M Lallans 60 - Da Odyssey (1-75), (Lallans Magazine 2002) Shetland, poetry
- dem at wis skyuggit sheer destruction -
1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
weapons o mass destruction on page 17

1 matches

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
Flirtin wi destruction, on page 8

1 matches

General Northern

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
said, 'he wanted to show the destruction caused by the bombing...lives on page 40

1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Bravehert: The truth anent William Wallace (pairt 1), (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
rnt firsthaund o the deith an destruction that wad be their lot. They c
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
's come tae save the toon fae destruction. It wisnae even his dramatic on page 100
if he's goat a weapon ae mass destruction stuffed inside his coat. on page 124

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
seen the destruction o thae minority leids as nece
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ntit norie o Mutually Assured Destruction? on page 129

1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
late tae stoap years ay self destruction. But it's fine! on page 3

1 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 73 - Proverbs o Hell, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
than the cuddies o destruction dire. on page 81

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 56 - Greenfield the Name O The Pit, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, poetry
swirls the starry harvest in destruction on page 107

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth The killin fields!, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
d tak pairt in sic deliberate destruction an cry it sport. But there’
ed intae a truck. Sic hellish destruction , an aw duin in the name o ‘
2 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
e save maist o the School fae destruction and effectively dealin wi a h
1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
ïs tha róad that leads tae destruction, an monies a yin gaes that wy on page 8

1 matches