A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'carriage'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
carriageOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.276
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 carriage in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - The Bigger Hoose, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
opens the door for me. "Your carriage awaits, Sir," he says wi a de on page 105

1 matches

General Northern

Mitchell, Ian R. Lallans 63 - Walkin Woundit, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
bi the B and Q doors and the carriage lumps ootside, that mony o th
1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
fell fae the sky n dented the carriage way - repairs r needed lol (2020) twitter link

Dundee

Matthews, Lily A SPARK O INSPIRATION, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
nto toun by Laurence in th’ carriage as he wis tae wait at th’ l
hing ah kent, ah wis in th’ carriage wi’ Laurence an a lassie wh
2 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
p tae the nines oan a rickety carriage singin aboot the black hills on page xiv

1 matches

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
xis? Am expecting a horse and carriage! (2022) twitter link

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