Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'flexible'

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Use in varieties of Scots

flexible	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	2.5	8	6
ORK - Orkney
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	4	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	42.2	3	2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of flexible in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
ommunication, designed tae be flexible an deen amon an alang wi ithe (2021) twitter link

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
t tae aa dialecks: it's no as flexible as a system whaur folk disna
1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
a gey flexible approach tae preterites (simp
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
Scots has a gey flexible approach tae preterites (simp
1 matches

@OliphantWullie tweeted
O situation ! She wid caw it 'flexible workin conditions'. Fu stop ! (2022) twitter link

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
r needs. Thae grants shud bae flexible eneugh tae cover Ulster-Scots on page 39
delivery modail the penel bes flexible oan hit bein' fer a dedicated on page 61

2 matches

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
er-Scots is that it's a deep, flexible idea and so it means differen(2020)