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Use in varieties of Scots

dsl Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.7 11.8 0 0 5.8 31 4.4
Number of occurrences2823 0 0 1 3 1
Number of authors11 7 1 2 1

Occurrences of dsl in Corpus

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Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
e Dictionar o the Scots Leid (DSL) for sindry spellings an dial on page 17
ne Scots dictionar sic as the DSL that gies sindry spellings o on page 41
ionary of the Scots Language (DSL). on page 48
wants tae write in Scots, the DSL (Dictionary of the Scots Lang on page 51

6 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
of the Scots Language at www.dsl.ac.uk. They are the ootcome o on page 14
least o the DOST pairt o the DSL is ane o oor lang-term plans. on page 16
they will find a link tae the DSL tae help them oot. The RPS an on page 20

4 matches

Robertson, Colin Lallans 73 - Auld Scots law, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
eid haes a mukkil entrie (www.dsl.ac.uk) an ye can see hou the on page 24
curitie or guarantee (see www.dsl.ac.uk), but it wes forby an a on page 25

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 125, (self-published 2004) Central, newspaper
follaein address:- http://www.dsl.ac.uk
aw the airts o the yird. The DSL taen three year tae pit thegi
ies Research Buird (AHRB).The DSL haes includit wee bits o spee
3 matches

Wilson, Rab A Newsin Wi Jack Aitken, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
The DSL is faur frae gone –
1 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
Dictionars o the Scots Leid (DSL), the heidword is ‘house’
€˜Oor’. The heidword in the DSL is ‘our’. In the Dictiona
nt’. A search in the online DSL finds: ‘Advanced Search for
natural surroonds’. Online DSL: ‘Results of Advanced Searc
s the riches available in the DSL – a Scots wi beauty and dig
6 matches

@fairpechtoot tweeted
t Shop wi S3 class yesterday. DSL website tae look up wurds. Un(2016) search twitter

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
o fir/fur is bøn nottit idda DSL as shaain up aa on page 80

1 matches

Southern

Purves, David Lallans 67 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, newspaper
- thay'r no faur ti seek at DSL, tho MacDiarmid's no here nou on page 5

1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
e, just skecked yon in online DSL. Cos it streetches itsneck?(2020) search twitter
kking @cbiggerpicture Fae the DSL..... https://t.co/Jlk1a4CGsa(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@Angelinekking tweeted
a noise like thunder, as the DSL says. It's quite onomatopoeic(2020) search twitter