A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'litre'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
litreOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4117
ORK - Orkney
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 13.3 3 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 23 5 3
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
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 litre in Corpus

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General Northern

TheChielMeister Philomena and Alcohol, (youtube.com 2010) Doric, poetry
Wi a litre o' Grants vodka I'll watch ma
Wi a litre o' Grants vodka I'll watch ma
Wi a litre o' Grants vodka I'll watch ma
3 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Grab me twenty L and B and a litre ae vodka fae the shoap when y on page 140

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
n then she drank a full three litre bottle ae Irn Bru. on page 136
he asked the wummin fur three litre bottles a Mad Dog Twenty Twen on page 169

3 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
oot fur breid an veg, hauf a litre o wine, on page 107

1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
ot Aye, efter we'd hammered a litre botul a’ gin.
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
im, a Global Video caird an a litre boatle ay Smirnoff Blue Label
1 matches

General Central

@changed_days tweeted
They nonces could smuggle a 2 litre ginger bottle up their hoops, (2021) twitter link