A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'fragments'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fragmentsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.865
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of fragments in Corpus

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Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
snatches fragments on page 18

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. New Lambs, Owld Stone, (Brisk Northerly 2017) Orkney, blog
d the gutter fae the thoosand fragments o blue whin that lie aal roon
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
an ask aboot her wirk. I hear fragments ay whit she's sayin. She's go on page 3

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
t, piecin the gither whit wee fragments ay memory ah kin fae the nigh
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e taxi. Wee chaotic bursts an fragments ay orange an white racin oer
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
ee what she had missed in the fragments o dust floatin throu hir mine on page 49

1 matches

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