A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'meaning'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
meaningOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus14.74727
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 4
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 22.7 17 10
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 1308 8 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of meaning in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Haggis tasting notes, and whisky pairings, (Brisk Northerly 2019) Orkney, blog
very high oatmeal content – meaning the haggis can be fluffed wae
1 matches

Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2021) Orkney
rs aboot this. Is ‘whar’, meaning ‘who’, wan o the words li

Shetland

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
It comes fae "tun" meaning Andrew's croft/fields/enclosu
s it originates fae "Krátun" meaning a "sheep enclosure, nook, cor

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
dae twartree geng on me sock meaning twartree rows . I still say d

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
er, although I know the basic meaning - she would share the small

Watt, Valerie A skoit trowe da shops, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
first veesit wis The Hansel. Meaning “da present” hit wis da o
1 matches

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
co/nV5BaqRmeE for the English meaning.(2014)

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
ife'. An a suppose the Modern meaning his tae dee wi the potential (2021) twitter link
t it's in lots of hill names, meaning the hill grazing took place. (2020) twitter link

General Northern

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
ack_capener @JMcL14 ‘Na’ is meaning ‘no’ in that context though(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
xt tae nithing on fae the tag meaning Fit person!(2017)

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Tak tent o the Cabrach, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
were burnt doon mysteriously, meaning naebody could bide there.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
nding But drained them of all meaning.' on page 58

1 matches

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
ry, unique modes of thinking, meaning and expression”.
words to make crystal clear a meaning that one wants tae get across
2 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
The meaning o the cairn built at Glenore. on page 21
The meaning o the cairn built at Glenore, on page 22

3 matches

@annieones tweeted
d to know if @lennie know dif meaning (2021) twitter link

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
eturn to Scots is a return to meaning and sincerity. We can only gr on page 36

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
plendour as I contemplate the meaning of life at the dawn.' on page 24

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
vocabular that gies the clear meaning. It is an ordnar rule o journ on page 12
t a better unnerstaunin o the meaning an history ahin a word an whi on page 17
Sae 'mines', wi the same meaning as the Soothron 'mine' isna o on page 30
n wad. Thir words affects the meaning o the verb that follaes. on page 31
order that have a particular meaning that is different from the me on page 34
Also on pages 36, 57
7 matches

Robertson, Colin Lallans 73 - Auld Scots law, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
t according to the effect and meaning of the said act maid to that on page 24

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
t in pairts o Scotland, later meaning a state o confusion efter ani
1 matches

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
lose my eyes, wee red dots wi meaning I cannae imagine, a rash burn
1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit The Embra Greement, (Scots Language Centre 2012) Central, government
meaning as in PPERA.
1 matches

Mackintosh, Henrietta A Tale o Twa Leids: Gaelic, Scots an smoorin wi luve, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
, even before you glance upon meaning’? Whit daes it mean tae say
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
@leobancroft Whit is this meaning o "sun" Bein Scottish efter a(2016)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
@MrJohnNicolson I wis meaning tae chose tae rerun them ilka(2020)

@fairpechtoot tweeted
@DrMDempster 'commotion', meaning stramash or rammle. Ah aye ya(2017)

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

@fairfaaye tweeted
miliar phrase in Ulster-Scots meaning ‘excited or exasperated’ bu(2020)
Founthered (also foundered): meaning 'chilled to the bone'; as in (2020)
lear my head". 'Shire' (adj.) meaning pure, clear and unclouded #li(2020)
ar with the verb 'to blether' meaning to talk nonsense. And you mig(2020)
ten heard as “a quare gunk” meaning a great disappointment or unw(2020)
and 1 other occurrences.

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
ie O coorse I ken richtly the meaning o loanin! (2014) twitter link