A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sources'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sourcesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.42418
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 3
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 6
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 70.3 5 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sources in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
rases cam fae Alex or fae his sources, bit ta me dey aa soond laek
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Mid Northern A

Elphinstone Institute Aiberdeenshire Cooncil – Scots Leid Guidelines, (Aberdeenshire Council 2017) Doric, government
makin effective eese o online sources like
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General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - Beggerey’s Greenhoose, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
Sources say that latterly, Beggerey
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@Manuforti1968 tweeted
ly hid tae ask my mair brainy sources, i.e the wife an her best pal(2019)

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
uid orthography, finndin guid sources o literature in Scots, an mee
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West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 76 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
r mukkil less braw an haundie sources o oor readin material. Na; La on page 3

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ccoont at follaes, Robb uises sources sik as the battalioun weir di
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Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
wee book come fae a variety o sources. Some are fae auld books an i on page 9

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Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ut ah’ve heard fae numerous sources that it’s a beauty of a hin
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
“We have sources,” sayed the younger man.
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Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
hinkin aboot expandin her fid sources.
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General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
he use (and abuse) of primary sources. Wi an ee on readers that mic on page 130

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Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
el attestit in ither literary sources and sae the Merry Muses are h
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Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
rmation fae research an ither sources will be needit than is tae
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Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
air Fecht are jist some o the sources fowk can gaither news an opin
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@jack_capener tweeted
chaunce ye cid gies a wheen o sources fir tae read abbot it massell(2018)

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
click oan any links tae check sources an at in case thur wiz a chap(2020)

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
oon sae frae then oan we haed sources, as they're kent in universit on page 23

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General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
an' they can bae drew fae twa sources. Furstly on page 16
ty. Yin o' the baagest fundin sources fer mainstream fundin' fer co on page 36
ither sources. The fect at maist grants fae on page 38
n hit comparable wi' existin' sources o' data an' stairtin new wies on page 72

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