A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'comeback'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
comebackOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.275
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 10.2 4 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 comeback in Corpus

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General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
, this bloody gout his made a comeback. Feet feel like they have bee(2016)

(South) East Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 90 - Serendipity, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
time Ah'd thocht o a skeelie comeback it wis faur ower late. Syne A on page 27

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
l b left unturned if a make a comeback on the forum m8 - 1st thing (2021) twitter link
ddyScott1 auld goggsy makin a comeback - labour r doomed lol (2020) twitter link
cobbe @aaronmackiee7 spirited comeback second half guys n yous never (2020) twitter link

General Central

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
in onie kind o a lairge-scale comeback, the LibDems wull probably be
1 matches

@WhenDidADidny tweeted
again wae a solid 40 mins in comeback no37 nite. Mighta been rustie (2018) twitter link

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