Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'acre'

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Use in varieties of Scots

acre	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5.3	17	9
ORK - Orkney	9.9	1	1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	12.6	2	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	10.7	8	2
SEA - South East (Borders)	37.4	3	2
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)	31.4	1	1
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 acre in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
bruck, at the Hell's Half Acre on page 9

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
gairden, an gotten dis twenty acre croft, wi da burn runnin troo on page 8

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
stolen, golden oor, aneth an acre o blue, wi war millionaires. on page 45

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
aur awa as Calcutta. For ilka acre o desert recovert in Rajastha
aur awa as Calcutta. For ilka acre o desert recovert in Rajastha
2 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
pit his neb in at the Hunner Acre Widd on the wey and see if Ho on page 50
t aff at yince tae the Hunner Acre Widd and stertit tae speel tr on page 70
Hoolet's Hoose in the Hunner Acre Widd he gaed. He cam tae Hool on page 72
intae the bield o the Hunner Acre Widd and they stood up strech on page 123
d stravaiged intae the Hunner Acre Widd, and wis staundin forene on page 137
Also on pages 142
7 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
n lime, wi mair sheep tae the acre, an a better crappin o hey. T on page 17

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
Ma ferm is anerlie ten acre lyke.
An fullie thertie acre o guid rice.
2 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
thair hoose, mebbies twuntie acre or
1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Gillen, Charles Oot Here Mae Lane, (Words without Borders Magazine 2004) Ulster, prose
still ploo an acre a day,
1 matches