A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'elf'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
elfOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1101
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 58.1 10 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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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 elf in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
do come in,” said a peerie elf struggling tae reck da latch.
y Upatree, Santie’s aaldest elf. He wis croogin ower a bairn
at da desk wis a younger laek elf wi da 2008 file. He leapt tae
“That’s what my army of elf spies have informed me. Just
“Greetings!” roared an elf dressed in green fae head tae
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