Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'asylum'

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Use in varieties of Scots

asylum	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.4	14	9
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	19.6	6	3
MNB - Mid Northern B	262.1	2	1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen	11.9	1	1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	5.3	4	3
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of asylum in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
he toun affloadit incomers an asylum seekers, the fremmit, the oot
n the toun wis scant an, bein asylum -seekin incomers, they'd bin r
2 matches

Rumbles, Brodie-Anne Recordin on Beep, (Scots Hoose 2022) Doric - Banff, weans
s care in the Carfax Mayfield asylum .
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
he dear days o her life in an asylum nae kennin day fae nicht. The
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
an the lassie awa. Her tae an asylum an David tae seven years serv
ervant lassie hid died in the asylum soon aifter and naebody hid k
2 matches

Mid Northern B

Dunnett, Nathan The Auld Asylum, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
id tak a walk up tae the auld asylum in the middle of the wids and
un online tae play visitin an asylum .
2 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - The Bigger Hoose, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
o ye managed tae get ower the asylum waa!" on page 109

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
l themes the likes o the NHS, asylum seekers an Harold Shipman, af
1 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin Universal Declaration o Human Richts, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Central, government
tae enjoy in ither countries asylum frae persecution.
1 matches

Widmann, Thomas The State o Denmark, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ictions on immigration (incl. asylum seekers) an a mair negative w
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
he full hog and make the poor asylum seekers wear striped pyjamas?(2020)
atics have taken oooveer thee asylum??(2020)