A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'nedspeak'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
nedspeakOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.863
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 10.3 4 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 nedspeak in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 86, (self-published 2001) Central, newspaper
, followed by the top-quality Nedspeak translation."
A leet o "Nedspeak" words gien on this page incl
nvent anither name for it – Nedspeak. Bi makin oot that fowk that
stertin tae think they speak Nedspeak an aw noo. It's bad eneuch th
4 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Aw Aboard! The fecht for the Scots language stairts the day!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central - Bellshill, blog
od luck applying for a job in nedspeak, oor weel-wishers cry. Try se
1 matches

General Central

McClurg, Fernando Scots, the Electoral Commission an the language community, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
ae sel-consciousness aboot “Nedspeak”, wi confidence an wi digni
1 matches

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