A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'battalion'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
battalionOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.173
ORK - Orkney
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 142.2 5 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of battalion in Corpus

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Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
we were raked by fire frae a battalion o’, ”Cruchan” cryin’,
1 matches

General Central

Mackintosh, Jim The Banes o the Turas, (Tippermuir 2022 ISBN: 978-1913836313) Central, poetry
battalion stauns ready. on page 37

1 matches

General Ulster

Alexander, Brian Yarns 3 - Pilgrimage tae Passchendaele, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Dufferin, prose
parteecular for me, the 14th Battalion o the Rifles - the Young Cit
tae the newlins creatit 19th Battalion o the Royal Irish Rifles. The
ifles. The 19th wis a reserve battalion, an sae he spent the first tw
en transferred intae the 14th Battalion o the Royal Irish Rifles.
haurdships tholed by the 14th Battalion are well screived. The losses
5 matches

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