A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'novels'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
novelsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.92918
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 33 13 3
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 6
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of novels in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
ie bit signifiecant trinkle o novels, stories and poietry mad i mo
1 matches

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ric author an Share if u love novels of CG Buswell https://t.co/ZI(2017)
ma Doric an Aiberdeen related novels an short stories? Ah’ll sele(2018)

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
ice? A big FO library o Scott novels, Alpine scene, coos wi bells (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom Lallans 59 - Leids and Lieder: Walcome ti Helvetiscots, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
n, an tendit ti set his short novels i the stramash o airlier cent on page 5

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
paek o Scottish characters in novels the likes o wis written bi Si
langage: pruifreadin, writin novels, an lairnin bairns tae spell,
nt. A masel, tho, writes hale novels in Scots, an pruifreads hale
sort this oot, A stappit twa novels in Scots (P. Hay Hunter's "Ja
cotsteXt site haes fower hale novels, hunders o short stories an t
7 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
tae Scots, baith thae graphic novels wis written bi Alan Grant an
ae twa Scots language graphic novels haes experienced the same app
tae the modren comic graphic novels thirsels gin they war owerset
ots vairsion o aw the graphic novels they furthset in the oncome.
4 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
a grand thing tae hiv graphic novels in Scots, wi aw the clues ee
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
in wan ae her Danielle Steel novels; ma sister, Karen, on the oth on page 55

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Prestwick, prose
t the skreivin o the Waverley novels. (As Hogg is reportit ti hae on page 116

1 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
ral an urban, tae mak poetry, novels an drama. Young folk in parti on page 9

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
. It bides ane o ma favourite novels o aw time an is ane A gae bac on page 58

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Fenton, Janet A Guid New Year tae yin and a!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central, blog
in the jail fur his poems and novels in English, he scrieved yin i
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Review: Saltire: Invasioun, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
erix an Tintin beuks, graphic novels an comics could see a signifi
1 matches

@OliphantWullie tweeted
a literary backgrund wi great novels & poetry tae back it up. Scot (2022) twitter link

@billykayscot tweeted
n’s ane o ma favourite Scott novels wi kenspeckle passages o Scot(2020)

South East (Borders)

Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
oetry tae, we read a couple o novels in extenso, an the ane A liki
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Burns, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
fluence o Zen Buddhism in the novels o Neil Gunn. on page 55

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
characters inaboot the Ulster novels o John Gamble an James McHenr
1 matches

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
ovative formats laike graphic novels. on page 56

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