A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'checker'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
checkerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.654
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 checker in Corpus

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General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
ir_ingy Es phones Doric spell checker still disnae get it. Gan tae (2019)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
nae resist this one - chubby checker n the fat boys lol (2020) twitter link
e r security guards - chubby checker n the fat boys - ffs lol (2020) twitter link

West Central

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
till ma work. Microsoft spell checker is wan hing, but fowk being p
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
in Scots the 'helpfae' spell checker gars us doot oorsels bi drawi on page 6

1 matches

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