A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'center'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
centerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1106
ORK - Orkney 49.7 5 1
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 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of center in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
n birled her roon an roon the center o the Haa wi couples hurlan b on page 81
ws. A mooth appens wide i the center o the center. Hid spaeks; her on page 101
The text's gaan oot tae the center o tings: Alpha Centauri, than on page 150
nan triple helix ithe plant's center. Sheu canno hear alairms noo. on page 154

5 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
e seen such a huge range, the center wiz the lowin fire and looked
1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
ticle is the the 'Nobel Peace Center' or 'Nobels Fredssenter' in N on page 15

1 matches

General Northern

The Mannie Fae Unco The Diary o a Feel at the Skweel, (unco.scot 2021) Doric, prose
wa timmer seats on tap in the center o the room. The teacher wiz y
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
elly screen positioned in the center ae the room is ma chosen dest on page 34

1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
e chipper. Wee bullets in the center ?? Cannae be bad though, 64 y(2020)

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