Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'adopt'

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Use in varieties of Scots

adopt	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.4	11	8
ORK - Orkney	9.9	1	1
SHD - Shetland
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	5.1	2	2
WCE - West Central	4.6	1	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	4	3	1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	55.6	4	3
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 adopt in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
drap a the daiälekt wirds an adopt Standard English vool firmaes
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
oap ma parents fae wantin tae adopt him. So, that's what we did a on page 198

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
uin whan they speirt MSPs tae adopt a Scots word tae uise an she
1 matches

West Central

@MizLiot tweeted
@echaimbeul Ill adopt ye, hen! (2021) twitter link

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
in anger. "When I agreed tae adopt yese," he said, "I became yer on page 46
"Mebbe Judge Strauss could adopt us," Klaus said. "She said we on page 59
hit's gaun on, she'd want tae adopt us," Klaus said howpfully, bu on page 60

3 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
let's sing, speak, adopt and gie toasts tae oor brithe on page 77

2 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
adopt the following meesures: on page 25

1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
aFSemple @brian_bilston Never adopt anything from East Ayrshire. (2020)