A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'frequent'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
frequentOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.71916
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 3
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 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 frequent in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
coorse day. Sumtyme's we wid frequent, eif we weis weyten fur thi t on page 50

1 matches

General Northern

Wood, Evelyn Tales Fae The Doric Side - Carlo, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
e took back wi him tae Italy. Frequent faimily visits followed in la on page 29

1 matches

(South) East Central

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
ather deys, the twa wad aften frequent the foreshore, and Rosie's he on page 1

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
comfort o bein able, without frequent misgivings, to consider him a
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
me on there books despite ma frequent sickness absenses cos a wis a (2020) twitter link

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
then he's richt tae frequent that sort o place. At least t on page 111

1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Soonds o the kirk an court: early airt muisic in Scotland, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ans frae England an Italy wad frequent the court. A nummer o compone
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
™ us took the opportunity tae frequent the hotel’s Sauna. Yin o’
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
It says you have been having frequent bouts of diarrhoea? Is that c
1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
The lassie's frequent trips tae the cludgie on page 52

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
oan the gravel ootside become frequent, bringin wi them the maist dr on page 3

1 matches

General Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
eque’. We get a rather mair frequent yiss o the continuous aspect
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
itit tae wirds that kythe gey frequent and place nemmes, it is faur
ll be there.’ This is a gey frequent featur o spoken SSE, though a
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
hern neebour tongues – is a frequent featur distinguishin Scots fa
1 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
is ‘house’ – the maist frequent spellin o a word that’s som
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@jax6754 tweeted
So are we likely tae see you frequent Edinburgh's farmer's markets (2015)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Where oft we wad frequent on page 16
Soon we will frequent on page 49

2 matches

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