A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'minus'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
minusOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.554
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 minus in Corpus

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General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Gless awa doon past minus three,
Gless awa doon past minus twa,
2 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Tak tent o the Cabrach, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
ad that disnae ging onyplace. Minus fower it said on the car as I
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ith still endet up gettin a C minus fur it. on page 86

1 matches

Glasgow

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ercury plummets doon ablo the minus twinty merk. Een the maist de
1 matches

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