A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'chiefs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
chiefsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.798
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 2
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
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 chiefs in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie Back tae trowie schul, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
groond schul. Wance da trowie chiefs mak up dir minds ower whaar t
irns. I joost hope yon trowie chiefs mak dir minds up afore wir ee
2 matches

General Northern

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
t's nae muckle winner the oil chiefs teen the hump
1 matches

(South) East Central

Crawford, Ross Eemis Stane 1 - Ane Dialog betwix King James VI, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, script
ce - but he did spak tae the chiefs wae familiar wirds, in wiys t on page 11

1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
The NaTO chiefs, wi Bush an Blair, on page 47

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
call yirsels chiefs, well eh wid on page 40

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
sed roun kinship no kingship. Chiefs o the tribes were answerable on page 19

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
st Lord Murray an’ the Clan Chiefs had had enough an’ forced a
1 matches

General Central

@gordimhor1 tweeted
juist the chaff it's the tory chiefs and blue bloods that's the wh(2019)