A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'eg'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
egOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.82211
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.2 6 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.3 7 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of eg in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
an canna be spleet idderwyes (eg no *sudden of an all/*all, on page 99

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
he boolin, an he wis es richt eg Tain, Fa telt ye?" on page 22

1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
d unless you have top players eg Celtic - graft wins oot (2022) twitter link
d unless you have top players eg Celtic - graft wins oot (2022) twitter link
ls tend nae tae be available. Eg Nisbet at Hibs, nae available (2021) twitter link
d ootside could have that tak eg n away if things continue lik (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
wisna in the English cognate (eg "he'rt" for "hert" an aa that
ifferent in different airts, (eg "microscope" can be soondit d
aphies (mainly Insular Scots, eg Shetlandic), but the Aiberdee
an thare that breks the rule, eg "francheese, anchor".
fficulties monolinguals haes (eg liftin that the French spaeks
5 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
etten a coddilt eg. The veisitors wes the Rid Do
1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traivells wi a Cuddie i the Cevennes (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-5-1) Central, prose
tuim bottil ti haud mulk, ane eg-bater, an a fair quantitie o on page 5

1 matches

General Central

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
(eg. Hugh MacDiarmid). Hooanever,
1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
shaws pronunciations – sae eg: ‘Fit are ee fusslin fur, m
1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
at’ wi a verb endin in - s, eg: ‘Them that lives langest s
€˜They that’ + plural verb, eg: ‘They that hain at their d
onal verb pairts uised wrang (eg. cam uised as a present tense
3 matches

@jack_capener tweeted
ce words with a glottal stop (eg. Sco'ish instead o Scottish) (2018)

@rattlecans tweeted
to looking so like a man that eg elderly women can't see she i (2022) twitter link

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
e chin intae Alice's shoother eg shae addet, "an the moral o t on page 90

1 matches

General Ulster

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
ach95 Quite a few of these - eg scalder and poozhant- still u(2020)