A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'unionist'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
unionistOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.83523
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 20.3 8 5
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 21.2 16 9
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of unionist in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

@JamesAmcvean tweeted
debating a NO Surrrrendurrrr unionist(2020)

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Will virus crisis mean a fresh stairt for Scots produce?, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
n Jacks on Scots produce is a unionist mind game – an attempt tae
1 matches

General Northern

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
got Alf's dander up. A trade unionist in his day, he hated exploita on page 8

1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
And are ultra-Unionist in their refinement. on page 33

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
cession o British an Scottish unionist admeinistrations ower the yea
1 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
fling o the Conservative and Unionist Pairty in the Scottish contex
ies in bein pairt o a staunch Unionist
2 matches

Malgrati, Paul Ayont the Fake and the Leal: Let's Free the Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
jyst fae that ayebidan crew o Unionist haters an Oxford Dictionar cr
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
, thon's juist whit the three unionist pairties is sayin in deeds. T
frae the MSPs o the three unionist pairties in the Scots pairlam
2 matches

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
kythit: the Conservative and Unionist Pairty (The Blae Tory: Greedi
1 matches

West Central

Hodgart, John A Catalogue o Sair Neglect, (Bella Calledonia 2016) Central - North Ayrshire, blog
perpetuatit the imperialistic unionist cultural values an norms that
1 matches

@annieones tweeted
of English. Happy to swap oor unionist orange nutters for the folk w (2021) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
er the combined attacks o the Unionist pairties. A wuid suggest that on page 8
anipulatin the past tae fit a Unionist agenda fer the simple reason on page 100

2 matches

Glasgow

Durie, Nick The Best o the Baith o Thaim, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
aething tae eat? Aw the ither Unionist pairties that awed their bouk
h o a bastart o a thing. Thir Unionist voters wasna the anes we coud
2 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 56 - Cauld Kail Fae Embro, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
n up twa-leid signs. Nouadays Unionist politeicians courrie up wi Sc on page 121

2 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
ationalist raither nor Ulster Unionist.
ts, an frae thaim o an Ulster Unionist backgrund acause o mair compl
erged Irishness in the face o Unionist sel-identification wi Britain
3 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
o the Protestant warkin cless unionist communities that were strangl
lest election they fecht as a unionist pairty? I canna see a Damasce
2 matches

McClurg, Fernando Tae see oorsels as we see ithers, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ictory i Zkotland, routin the unionist Labour pairty at the ae time
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The Great Divide, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ither Aye-votin airts, an the Unionist vote is skailed mair evenly a
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt twa: Janus leuks aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
bombardit wi propaganda baith Unionist an Capitalist alike. Fowk sha
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
merely recommendations. While Unionist politicians an journalists wa
1 matches

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
scot @NicolaSturgeon It's the Unionist Rags that hae pit us in tae t(2016)

@RickHJohnston tweeted
rood by the back door using a Unionist-designed PR system. https://t (2023) twitter link

@billykayscot tweeted
an Libdem British Nationalist/Unionist MPs an MSPs - they’re only (2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
the threat by a coupla dozen unionist neanderthals ?? (2022) twitter link

@pmcm1355 tweeted
se o Scots is bein pushit fir unionist political reasons. Whits sae (2022) twitter link

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
rim an north Down are maistly Unionist in politics sae Ulster-Scots
1 matches

General Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
e you forgotten that you're a unionist? I'll have to get on the loud(2017)