A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Intro a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Texts Writers Statistics Top200 Search Compare

Concordance

Enter a word to find all occurrences of, for example ablow

The word 'candidates'

- basic concord - pre-sorted concord - post-sorted concord - map and chronology - chronogrid - similar spellings -

Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
candidatesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.71510
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 16.3 3 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.7 8 5
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 candidates in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Johnstone, Ian Tuney Loon's low doon, (The Fraserburgh Herald 2000) Doric, newspaper
wis a regular league o odious candidates fir the Tap Division in the L
1 matches

Aberdeen

The Flying Pigs Multiple choice voting leaves city cooncil facing, (Press and Journal 2022) Doric, newspaper
o are ye supposed tae pit the candidates in order o’ preference fan
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
be up to 3 exiting - likely candidates - Logan, Bryson, McGeoch, Mc (2020) twitter link

West Central

Clark, Thomas Yes Nae Mair, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
pictures fae that day forrit, candidates galore for anither airin, jus
1 matches

Glasgow

Durie, Nick Votin Seestems, (peffers50.freeserve 2003) Central - Glasgow, prose
harefae the Perties waels the candidates thai wants tae be eleckit in
us fowk tae sort thair leit o candidates efter thair conceit on thair
n out again til saicont chyce candidates. This cerries on till summbod
3 matches

General Central

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
wis aye felt on the choice o candidates.
ou the haunling ane o the new candidates for the buird, Reverend Stuar
2 matches

McClurg, Fernando Votin isna Democracy. But..., (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
the narra range o opinions an candidates an aw the lave o this farce.
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The Great Divide, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
Tory supporters tae keep SNP candidates oot confirms sumthing that’
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Thon Survation poll..., (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
ors, the quality o individual candidates an the campaigns that they ri
1 matches

@RickHJohnston tweeted
e a radge-check on some o the candidates! https://t.co/G2x7yM86Qv (2022) twitter link

@bigandymccoll tweeted
consideration of a coupla NEC candidates. Roddy, here, and also our In (2022) twitter link

@rattlecans tweeted
strates they are not suitable candidates tae manage a message list for (2022) twitter link

Web Analytics