A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'binary'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
binaryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.274
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 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 binary in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
se or glydan by wi the aese o binary starns. (Ya, but on page 132

1 matches

General Northern

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - The mornin o the waddin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
eal aboot ma comin oot as non-binary. It wis kinda obvious onywye, on page 99

1 matches

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
n a majorette tae satisfy the binary theology o Microsoft aye an e(2020)
the reality o this. My inner binary OS wad crash w fundamental co(2020)
ajorette moves to assuage the binary deities and nae een I can ess(2020)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
ale and now identifies as non-binary using they/them pronouns." So(2020)