A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sikh'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sikhOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.586
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
NEC - North East Central 92.7 2 1
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sikh in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
da paackies is back, da Sikh is back wi his bridder, on page 69

1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Rin throu the jungle, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
The Sikh lads spraffed amang theirsels
thegither tae mak a rope. Ae Sikh swam the river an tied ae end
2 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 176, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
he likes o Mrs. Kaur, Fiona's Sikh click's Mum, that's a keen ma
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
er Mr Parkash Singh, a lapsed Sikh and traivilling salesman. He
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
lassie in wan G who's also a Sikh an apparently she takes part. on page 23
anyway. Harpreet said, Ah'm a Sikh. Seek, said Kelly Marie, Yi d on page 26

2 matches

Glasgow

@johnstone_shane tweeted
a buik written by a Scottish Sikh in a dialect of Scottish Panj (2020) twitter link