A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'challenges'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
challengesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.71910
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 15.8 12 4
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 challenges in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
fusky passed aroon, an wi it challenges an boasts
1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Your insolent beauty challenges the spring on page 32

1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
larity contest, Aldo’’ he challenges me. “ Doesnae matter what h
1 matches

West Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 104 - Stephen, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
, whaur we hug. This hus it's challenges as he is mair or less made o on page 17

1 matches

General Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
dealin praisent wi financial challenges and competin priorities. The on page 17
s the evident unnerscorin the challenges facin Gaelic. The Committee i on page 21
acin signeeficant recruitment challenges, as ye maun be profeecient in on page 33
edium settin haes addeetional challenges as they are tryin tae mak sha on page 34
ruip recognised the practical challenges there micht be in providin th on page 38
Also on pages 40, 63
8 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
aginst the same challenges
challenges.
2 matches

Wilson, Rab A centre of undeemous excellence fir Scots leid, (The National 2017) Central, newspaper
A braw exaumpil o the challenges, still extant nou in the 21st
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
Take yin o the summer challenges fae @EducationScot an find oo (2020) twitter link

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