A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'lullabies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lullabiesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.553
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 32 3 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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 lullabies in Corpus

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Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
e a bite!" She had ane or twa lullabies in her heid that she yaised w on page 23

3 matches

General Central

Morning, Carey Neeps and Tatties, (self-published 2020) Central, weans
Mithers sang ill-willie lullabies. on page 19

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
o he spak nae English; an our lullabies and bairn-rhymes wis in Scots
1 matches

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