A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

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The word 'according'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
accordingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.12618
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 28.1 11 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 12 9 9
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of according in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
According to the public concept, dialec
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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
richt. "Logistical pacifism, according to some... (yaan)...", aye, t on page 86

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General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ae clean oot the loft the day according tae the wife which I am nae h(2016)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 114, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
'no according tae this. Still,' she said, t
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Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
According tae Miss Pullar, David had be
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Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
several times wi a crossbow. According tae Harry Reid’s parents, h
1 matches

Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
drainpipe outside her hoose. According tae the shrinks, she’s got
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
r beautiful (sometimes baith) according tae her. She wis prone tae th
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Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
, he wis a guid fitba player (according tae him), aftimes he would re
rdly gien the sniff o a pass. According tae him this wis due tae twa
2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ame gets the go ahead guys - according to the fm 2 day - cases r on (2020) twitter link
burgh @McBookie fair point - according to kelty fans they cannae wai (2021) twitter link
according 2 the east lothian courier th (2021) twitter link
wed at lochgelly this weekend according to jason leitch - looks like (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
. Indirect quotes nae problem according to Surname, Initials, date in
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General Central

Robertson, Colin Lallans 73 - Auld Scots law, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
hir half to the pairte grevit according to the effect and meaning of on page 24

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Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
. It haes a parallel in wark. According tae SND, derk appears, at lea
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@jack_capener tweeted
ing about the self harm mate. According to the original interview, sh(2018)

@MartinBroon tweeted
shouldda done yer thing, but according tae @jranks11 interview wae Â(2019)

@RickHJohnston tweeted
eve that!! TRUELY! Your UNION according to your thinking has rendered (2022) twitter link

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
otside (nae roof) or parasols according to geog but also heaters and (2020)

@OliphantWullie tweeted
spoken by 1.5 MILLION people according to the 2011 UK census. Awfy l (2022) twitter link

@DABArbuckle tweeted
According tae the Andrew Marr show the (2020)

@fairpechtoot tweeted
sage, like, vary in frequency according tae age, gender or dialect? @(2019)

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
@RobertMiggins Mine is, according to ma smartwatch is 657ft abo(2020)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
er know there was a pandemic, according to so(2020)