A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'contraction'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
contractionOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.585
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.4 7 4
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 contraction in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
phes, bit fir some Glaswegian contraction ae standart English ir Scots on page vi

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
rophe comprehendit is athin a contraction (they had/they'd): on page 33

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
The next contraction stings mair than when ah pick on page xix

2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
SSE and Scots ‘gonnae’; a contraction o Scots ‘gaun tae’ (going
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
’ is ‘wean’: at hert, a contraction o ‘wee ane’.
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
ye didnae ken 'goodbye' is a contraction o 'God be with you'. Braw pro(2020)
speaking a sentence. It was a contraction of "said I". "Sie, ye'll need(2020)

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