A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'garbage'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
garbageOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1107
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of garbage in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
in dey spaek aboot GIGO - ‘garbage in, garbage out’ (or ‘bru
in, garbage out’ (or ‘bruck in, bruck
2 matches

Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
t massell laffin at the utter garbage spouted oan here...hahaha...f (2021) twitter link

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
Help ma boab, heed is in garbage bin the day! Promised myself (2016)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 108, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
on aw fowers, out o trochs on garbage.
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
league is pish n the games r garbage - awe we r sayin is give us (2021) twitter link

West Central

Clark, Thomas Radge Against the Machine: Deid Wirds, Deid Warlds, an Why Scots Maitters, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
Jerry Seinfeld's definition o garbage - if it's touchin garbage, i
- if it's touchin garbage, it IS garbage. Tae deploy ma
, it IS garbage. Tae deploy mair English in t
3 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
y contradictory, ill-informed garbage since ah goat in at the rank
1 matches

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