A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'forman'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
formanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7122
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
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) 137.2 11 1
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 forman in Corpus

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Orkney

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
No tae mention the skill o forman marks on the paper, on page 109

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
m dancing it the dances i the Forman Memorial Hall Roberton, frae
yonner, afore the Forman Memorial Hall wis apent it Ro
Mrs. Forman, whae hed the local Hall bigg
n’. Geordie MacKay wis Mrs Forman’s
e ‘simmer retreat’ bi Mrs Forman, ay, mebbies i the 1920’s.
11 matches

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