A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'equivalent'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
equivalentOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.72520
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 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 17.3 13 10
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of equivalent in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
d form (an de'r nae lang form equivalent), bit w'ir decidit tae keep d on page 36

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Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
ti London. Bidin next ti the equivalent o Codonas. Big wheel een side(2020)

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
square of kitchen roll is the equivalent.(2020)

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
Innes0 Aht gadgie wiz the 70s equivalent o Bez.(2020)
ligeey Some eese. Must be the equivalent o Udny gettin 5G.(2020)

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
o thing is the dialeck-level equivalent o the difficulties monolingua
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
rubbed heids in greeting, the equivalent o a haun shake for humans.
1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Aw Aboard! The fecht for the Scots language stairts the day!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central - Bellshill, blog
oot the template for whit an equivalent body for the Scots language w
1 matches

Davidson, Alistair The Mitterand Plan, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
l govrenments wha control the equivalent o the Commons. We hae a richt
1 matches

Edinburgh

Capener, Jack This laund wis wrocht for you an me, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central - Edinburgh, blog
fitpath is the hillwalker’s equivalent o the autobahn thanks tae the
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Eemis Stane 2 - Editorial: A Twa Wey Street, (Eemis Stane 2023) Central, prose
dae tae bring aboot its Scots equivalent. Nor yersel, maist like. The on page 3

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
ditional letters 'þ' (thorn) equivalent to the modern 'th', /ð/ (eth on page 17

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Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
˜=’ followed by the English equivalent as if Scots wis the puir rela
ttlin tae avoid een giein the equivalent English word as a gloss. This
2 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ple the South British English equivalent wad be ‘that needs to be do
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ter an a pouder cried ‘milk equivalentʼ. Gaein doun on ma hunkers,
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Scots, the Electoral Commission an the language community, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
The equivalent text for Ulster Scots is:
1 matches

Widmann, Thomas The State o Denmark, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
name Uisual Inglis name Scots equivalent
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Syriza, an the road aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
nae Syriza or Podemos – or equivalent tae the Slovenian Unitit Left
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
intae a guid yin-wird English equivalent, fur the Gaelic speiker, ower
1 matches

@Cobradile94 tweeted
yersels, B&N. Juist needin an equivalent ower here. https://t.co/hBv3S(2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
I LOVED them - they wur our equivalent of foie gras (which I now get (2022) twitter link

@LairnScots tweeted
what would be the West Coast equivalent? https://t.co/DzE41QxYk7 (2018) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Tindal, Betty Lallans 73 - Mither, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
a work o art, Celtic equivalent o 'Wha daur meddle wi me'. on page 58

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General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
yref seems tae be the Twitter equivalent. http://t.co/JXryi3GNsG (2014) twitter link