Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'difficulties'

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Use in varieties of Scots

difficulties	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5.2	17	12
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)	35.2	1	1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen	10.9	1	1
DOR - General Northern	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	15.2	6	2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	4.6	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	8	6	5
SEA - South East (Borders)	12.5	1	1
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 difficulties in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
ed only wan way o settlan all difficulties, great or peedy. "Off wi his on page 82

1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
ly religious life under great difficulties' an took a lot o legpullin fa on page 40

1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
m hits it at the first sign o difficulties (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
The difficulties met wi in lairnin bairns in t
in the Lallans movement, the difficulties in a spellin like "heiliegole
e fluent, an sorts some ither difficulties in unexpeckit weys, like latt
ialeck-level equivalent o the difficulties monolinguals haes (eg liftin
4 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
tae jist git tore in, an onie difficulties jist got smoored in the breen
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
meaningful discussion of the difficulties being experienced by the lang
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
id only wan wey ae dealin wae difficulties, sreat or sma. "Oaf wae his h on page 84

1 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
acceptable tae uise perceived difficulties o definin whit Scots is as a on page 10

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 56 - In The Classroom, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
eacher for those with Hearing difficulties. She daundered in, nodded at on page 37

1 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
wheen difficulties that micht be experienced. Fo
thered has pointit oot sindry difficulties an
2 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
Ma maw demonstratin the difficulties o scrievin tweets in Scots le(2018)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
yscot Separately: whaur I fin difficulties wi Scots is hae the richt/ene(2020)

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
hae only yin wei o settlin aw difficulties, big or wee. "Off wi eis heid on page 84

1 matches