A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'lowland'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lowlandOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.8328
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 2
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 53.2 21 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
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 lowland in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
ed religiously aal owre rural lowland Scotland – fae Gallowaa tae
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
1.5 Shaetlan isna Lowland Scots on page 20

4 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
ta drittle ahint da example o Lowland Scotland. Of coorse dae’r a
1 matches

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
lowland men.
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
r the burra there against the lowland league legends m8 (2020) twitter link
r - so whats happened to the lowland/eos pro status bearing in min (2021) twitter link
ull and void is a kop out for lowland and eos leagues - bearing in (2021) twitter link
he record - bonnyrigg in the lowland league n the burra in the eos (2021) twitter link
od to get a look at another 2 lowland league sides! (2021) twitter link
and 15 other occurrences.

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
eftir Culloden, that muckle o Lowland Scotland was subjeckit tae mi on page 61

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
n an fishin fer the rich. The Lowland clearances which had seen the on page 82

1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
rrit tae in English as Scots, Lowland Scots or Broad Scots. In Scot
doon split atween Hieland and Lowland Scotland.
2 matches

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