A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'combo'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
comboOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.654
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
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
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 combo in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
ewlot A Yule/Hairst tradition combo?? (2020) twitter link

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
ays a mean mandolin / whistle combo! (2020) twitter link
@molach95 Think it's a combo. Denny and there's Boat of Fo (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
A jump up n hit him a triple combo, a big dirty right, a wee che on page 19

1 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
full ae goodies. Fuckin weird combo ae hings the cunt's sellin bu on page 1

1 matches

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