A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'belong'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
belongOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.41410
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 belong in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
irst thoucht wis at iss micht belong till wan o on page 10

1 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
f then heeded back tae far we belong, the Fittie Bar! Jessie disna(2016)

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
the piana playin. She didnae belong. It was the place she'd arriv on page 1

2 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
e wis three words that didnae belong taegether in the same sentenc on page 137
the matter. "Well, these two belong tae me. And naeboady touches on page 199

2 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ack tae yir auld maw where yi belong. Widyi mean. Away back tae yi on page 66

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ou make them sound as if they belong to a pre-lapsarian world, bef
1 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma Jimmy and his wee darlin Alexa, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
“Alexa, play ‘Ye Belong tae Me’ by Patsy Cline,”
“Playing ‘You Belong to Me’ by Patsy Cline.”
2 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ean hur face that kin ainlie belong tae a wumman. 'Ma sister hud on page xv

1 matches

Facebook link ( 2022) Central
, follaein the rules where ah belong.

@Chazzbat tweeted
ade tae feel like they dinnae belong. Ah cannae wrap ma heid aroon(2020)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
Hear hear @kristinwh0 Aa belong tae Glesga. https://t.co/HOve(2020)