A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'gaidhlig'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gaidhligOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.587
ORK - Orkney
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 13.8 3 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of gaidhlig in Corpus

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West Central

Hodgart, John Scots Language Act: Oor weans hae richt tae see mither tung respectit, (The National 2021) Central - North Ayrshire, newspaper
bie alang the lines o Bord na Gaidhlig, responsible for seein that t
1 matches

@annieones tweeted
ach a wis 2nd ???? #duolingo #Gaidhlig Truth is am highly addicted.. (2021) twitter link
???????????? ; ????? ??????? #Gaidhlig #Scots #???????? (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
y dear, would you mind? Bheil Gaidhlig agad? on page 3

1 matches

General Central

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
ld Stewart in 1981. Comunn Na Gaidhlig an ither influential
1 matches

Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
Data – Bòrd na Gàidhlig (gaidhlig.scot) The ettle o GME is for
1 matches

@Cobradile94 tweeted
A tawk #italiano, some #Gaidhlig an a bittie #Napulitano an aw(2019)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
Hoo no? Naw, there's nae no. Gaidhlig sets a guid pad tae dauner.(2020)