A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'lowest'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lowestOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1109
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
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 lowest in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie A skoit trowe da shops, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
I haaled myself up tae see da lowest row o birthday cairds an pick
1 matches

General Northern

Mitchell, Ian R. Lallans 63 - Walkin Woundit, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
ovin alang a line tae get the lowest bidder for a day’s rough la
1 matches

@AMaxwell54 tweeted
st dirty jobs on ih fairm. Ih lowest o' ih low forbye. Orra = dirt (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
nsible way - n grasses r the lowest of the low imo anyway - b oa (2020) twitter link

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
horniegolloch, sittin in the lowest class, ettlin tae tell me a m on page 150

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
n lands. In thae kintraes the lowest level o participation in demo on page 29

1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
˜â€™Talkin aboot money is the lowest form ae conversation, Dougie.
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
st tae underline yir absolute lowest day. Aw Shaney Shaney Shaney on page 3

1 matches

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
es were true fuckin paedos... lowest oÂ’ the lowest!! Nae doobt! ?(2020)