A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'horsie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
horsieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1102
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 29.4 9 1
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 1.3 1 1
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 horsie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
rra mids o the wids stude the horsie steen. The bairns o the Leddr
ns o the Leddrach caad it the horsie-steen, fur gin ye luikit clos
e cud jist aboot makk oot the horsie-steen frae the windae o the s
eached the runkled face o the Horsie Steen. Loons warna coorse tae
Hup noo horsie! Aff we gyang.
9 matches

General Central

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
The horsie's name wis Snowball on page 38

1 matches

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