A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'demonstrate'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
demonstrateOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.91313
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 7
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 demonstrate 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.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Tae demonstrate the high regard in which they on page 77

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
th waas." Morrice sut doon te demonstrate. "It's as near the bedroom, A on page 9

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
tae normalise the language an demonstrate tae some fowk that it
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
derson picked me tae go up an demonstrate the military two step wi him on page 26

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
e to me. This is necessary to demonstrate the severity of this matter t on page 56

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part two of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ia for claimants is that they demonstrate a willingness to get back int
1 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
Bit whit A besides wantit tae demonstrate tae them is the difficulty an on page 35

1 matches

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
Ane can demonstrate academic and effective abilit on page 51

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Allan, Alasdair Scots Language Policy, (Scots Parliament 2015) Central, government
ts an commitments ablow whilk demonstrate the policy context that Scots on page 2

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Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
ls sic as silver. Forby, they demonstrate the technical kennin o Pechti
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The Potemkin Pairty, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ds o fowk comin thegither tae demonstrate, tae speak, tae listen. Piper
1 matches

MacMinto, Gregor The Rhythms of Bratislava, (wordpress 2022) Central, blog
thorities seemed positive tae demonstrate at the Communist Pairtie cud
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
licDuo Looks like we need tae demonstrate that there's enough demand af (2020) twitter link

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