A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'scotchies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
scotchiesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4112
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 140.6 10 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of scotchies in Corpus

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Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Tha Scotchies gulderin for "Aye" an "Na". on page 38

1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
skinny oul tattie scones the Scotchies hae wud gie ye the scunner: m (2017) twitter link
ots @IrishTimesBooks Aye, the Scotchies fae across the sheuch hae mai (2016) twitter link
I hairdly unnerstaun ocht the Scotchies say. #UlsterScots for aye #in (2014) twitter link
The Scotchies fae across the sheuch hae a s (2014) twitter link
Scotchies... we #ulsterscots hae thouch (2014) twitter link
and 5 other occurrences.