A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'col'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
colOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.485
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 col in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
shö slippit him laek a haet col, juist in time ta stop hersel on page 20
slippit da bottle laek a haet col, sayin tae hersel, "Yon's mai on page 34

2 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
p tae the hollaed-oot glacial col, only aboot twal acres in ext
y walkit up tae the lip o the col an sut leukin doon at a wheen
scrauchlet ower the lip o the col an
3 matches

General Central

@g_hibby tweeted
@Hibbycol Now that's nice Col... ?? And have a belter yerse (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
e, an hei fermed baith ferms. Col. Fasson wis ae POW wi the Jap
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
@ColinBurnett16 Cheers Col, yon means a lot. (2020) twitter link