A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'continental'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
continentalOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.91310
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of continental in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
nfluence fae Norn alang wi da Continental Low Germanic languages (see d on page 20

1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
ication - that as far as the Continental Reformation was concerned Lut on page 57

1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
@DeesideDon Continental min(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
earance! Bit she is getting a'continental wee the new Fittie Mac Burger(2018)

West Central

Davidson, Alistair The Mitterand Plan, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
razil – mucke kintras, near-continental i size. Even posterbairn Icel
1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Soonds o the kirk an court: early airt muisic in Scotland, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
air weel-kent contemporars in continental Europe. In his entry anent Re
sic frae Scotland, England an continental Europe, includin 106 psalm se
2 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
t o me, fae Englan as weel as continental Europe an America werenae fam on page 33

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
he Parliaments. At this pynt, continental siller cunyies ootnummert Ing
sindry coinage; an the muckle continental element meltit doun at the Un
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General Ulster

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
tatties and gravy man at the Continental Market this year. But did fin(2019)