A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'lone'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
loneOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.897
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 2
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 lone in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gallows Ha - Dance tae the End, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Will a lone voice spaek up on the Eve o A on page 27

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Lone sentinel upright, wae reed ha on page 63
Will a lone voice spaek up on the Eve o A on page 153

2 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
eider drakes squabble ower a lone female on page 16

1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@MusselburghAth perfect for a lone ranger like eersel - b oan t (2020) twitter link

West Central

Alston, Connor THE BLACK-EYED CHILDREN OF SCOTLAND, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
woods tae this day lookin fur lone families or couples or anyhin
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
the middle ay the hall, is a lone figure; loast in the music, h
1 matches

General Central

Matheson, Ann Lallans 84 - Attrition, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, poetry
At Lone Tree, a gean shelled tae a sc on page 8

1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
eople don't but you can't be "lone" anymair not with us aboot. ?(2020)

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