A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'occurred'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
occurredOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.51815
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 3
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 62.4 5 2
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 occurred in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
in Shapinsay, odd happeneens occurred. on page 55

1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
sides o id, an behind id, id occurred till her at she micht as weel on page 40

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
drap Ah gat - it jist nivver occurred te ma at she micht be tellin on page 57

1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
lads hingin aboot fur. Never occurred that she was in an oot the hu on page 1

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
e dump we were in nou. It had occurred ti me that Nick micht leave m on page 72

1 matches

Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
enough, that is exactly what occurred. As Gus’s closest freen and
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
sides ae it, an ahint it, it occurred tae her she might as well loo on page 42

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
And it niver occurred that it coud end, on page 136

1 matches

@johnstone_shane tweeted
Dempster @Lenniesaurus Nevvir occurred tae iz it wis thi wurd "caked (2020) twitter link

Ayrshire

McClelland, Ben Chicagof Island, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Ayr, prose
ory this wasnae, but whit had occurred and where was the wee miner n
1 matches

General Central

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
This haedna occurred ti Kate. She leukit ti the st on page 29

1 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
When somethin Oo occurred. on page 139

1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
Hus it no occurred tae Cecilia thit Tom is the w(2020)

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
ht aboot this efterwards, eet occurred tae hur that she should hae n on page 7
ile, finndin that nithin mair occurred, she decided tae gaun intae t on page 13
idea hoo lang ago onyhin hed occurred.) Sae she sterted agin: "Ot. on page 21
ides o eet, an ahint eet, eet occurred tae hur that she micht as wei on page 41

4 matches

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
@Eddystone506 Och aye! It occurred on ma birthday! Never forget (2020)

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