A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'breadth'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
breadthOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4113
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 36.8 8 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of breadth in Corpus

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West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
baths the day. Ah swam half a breadth an then ah stopped at the edg on page 13
it. She said if ah managed a breadth wi oot the airm bands then ah on page 14
cause aw ah'd done wis swim a breadth, an there wis ma best pal Cha on page 15
Harpreet (who can only dae a breadth) disappeart up tae the seven on page 55
had us trailin the length an breadth ae Moorpark jist tae find his on page 169

5 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2020) Central, prose
baths the day. Ah swam half a breadth an then ah stopped at the edg
it. She said if ah managed a breadth wi oot the airm bands then ah
use aw ah’d done wis swim a breadth, an there wis ma best pal Cha
3 matches

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
tae an embraces the breadth an' deptht o' Ulster-Scots id on page 22
social media), breadth o' braidcasters (fer example on page 54

2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
lairnin tha fowk tha lenth an breadth o tha lan, frae Galilee richt on page 109

1 matches

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