Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'maroon'

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Use in varieties of Scots

maroon	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3	10	9
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	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	5.2	2	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	10	2	2
AYR - Ayrshire	10.7	1	1
LAL - General Central	2.6	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	56.9	2	2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of maroon 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.

General Northern

Maitland, Andrew Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Auld Mannie, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
auns oan. There was a massive maroon chez longue an-aa, sat afront on page 76

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
oor a boays heid fur wearin a maroon toap. Hibs hud jist been pump on page 34
yae represented the green or maroon side ae the capital. She wis on page 88

2 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
average tea bag, an a pair ay maroon joggies.
1 matches

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
, the genuine Tibetan kind wi maroon robes and shaved heids. Three
1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
ondit by Hairts supporters wi maroon favours an Killie fans wi the on page 23

1 matches

General Central

Watt, George T. Lallans 73 - Red on Maroon, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Red on Maroon on page 111

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Three days in October, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
Muckle aiks wi their pink an maroon tippit leafs; the bonnie birk
1 matches

General Ulster

Stewart, Kenny The Bread Van, (Facebook 2020) Ulster, poetry
Eatons was maroon n' cream I think I'm nearly s
1 matches

@OrangRuth tweeted
Fuck aff Maroon 5 #WorldCupRussia2018(2018)