Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'executioner'

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Use in varieties of Scots

executioner	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	9.7	31	5
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	34.9	6	1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)	211	6	1
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	32.6	6	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	1.3	1	1
SEA - South East (Borders)	74.9	6	1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)	188.3	6	1
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 executioner in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
"A'll fetch da executioner mesel," said da Keeng, an sto on page 86
crood gaddered aroond him: da executioner, da Keeng an da Wheen wis aa on page 87
Da wye da executioner saa it, you couldna cut aff a on page 88

6 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
"A'll fetch e executioner masel," sade e King eagerly, on page 82
E executioner's argument wis, at ee couldna on page 83
prison," e Queen sade till e executioner: "fetch her here." An e execu on page 84

6 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
"Ah'll goan git the executioner masel," said the King cheerfu on page 84
-an-forth gaun oan atween the executioner, the King, an the Queen, who on page 85
The executioner's argument wis, that ye could on page 86

6 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
et felt as if Mr. Poe wis the executioner. Here he'd jist daundered doo on page 10

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
"Ah'll fetch th executioner masel," said th King deid kee on page 84
Th executioner's argument was, that ee could on page 85
h jail," th Queen said tae th executioner: "fetch hur here." An th exec on page 86

6 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
"A'll git the executioner maesel," said the King eagerl on page 85
argiement gan on baetween the executioner, the King an the Queen, wha w on page 86
The executioner's argiement wus, that yae cud on page 87

6 matches