A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'compulsory'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
compulsoryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.586
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
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 compulsory in Corpus

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General Northern

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
'This is to inform you that a Compulsory Purchase Order has been issue on page 8

1 matches

@Franwella tweeted
n £7 for technical n they're compulsory subjects. I feel a rant oh ho(2011)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
d in aw the schuils, it wisna compulsory an it wis left up tae indivee
1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
an set furth a platform o nae compulsory taxes, nae gun control, an aw
or mak the beltin o oor weans compulsory.
2 matches

Hodgart, John A Catalogue o Sair Neglect, (Bella Calledonia 2016) Central - North Ayrshire, blog
y’ o a Scottish text wid be compulsory, weel sort o compulsory, as s
, weel sort o compulsory, as students only had tae com
2 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
tell him that overtime’s no compulsory. Nae danger man. ‘Where, ex
1 matches

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