A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'icon'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
iconOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1107
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 17.9 7 4
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of icon in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
w car ta use a CD as da media icon when da thing dusna even hiv (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
Icon on page 19

1 matches

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
in legacy o Scottish cultural icon Hamish Henderson, in this cen
1 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
we cam fae. He wis a cultural icon that wis oors, but we were bl
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
t a feckin stoater - what an icon diego wis (2020) twitter link
the workers pairty - hees an icon in the political spectrum n i (2021) twitter link
itba fans in the world fir an icon oh the game n thats a fact (2020) twitter link
n dont u disrespect a fucking icon oh fitbaw - ffs lol (2020) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
y its up fer preservation, an icon o design' on page 48

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Sae she tapped on an icon, tha yin wi tha skull, on page 11

1 matches

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