A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'coaster'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
coasterOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.6187
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 53.2 12 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 coaster in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ike the Wild West wi a roller coaster aat lookit like a train. He c on page 39

1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
Eence aboord the coaster Cromdale they telt their stor on page 40

1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
She loves i' roller coaster. She loves i' dogems an aa on page 111
ROLLER COASTER on page 168

12 matches

West Central

@MizLiot tweeted
west as she uses words a west coaster didnae appairently (2021) twitter link

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
's jist like bein on a roller coaster!' And through the gless waws on page 139

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
We passed an old roller coaster that Dad called the boneshake on page 32

1 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
. Mind ye, it kin be a roller coaster o' guid moods and rage. Gled (2020)

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