A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'household'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
householdOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1108
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
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 household in Corpus

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Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
s supposed to be 1 person per household only #ThereIsSomeSenseOutTher (2020) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
an dugs in scenes o hunts or household gaitherins. There wis a stag
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
y reason some of the upstairs household were to come intae the kitche
1 matches

Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
From the McGowan household in Nairn Scotland...Happy New (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
nd haes furthset the follaein Household form for the Census Test that
absteid for a full copy o the Household form an see the hinnermaist t
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 76, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
e haes been threapin that the Household Survey wad be a better wey o
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
8 - labour stronghold in oor household - brothers united! (2021) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
n an David McManus huv become household names. Stramash huv had twelv on page 169

1 matches

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
eystorrie See the 2am cooking household thing... I kinda think it is (2020)