Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'nowhere'

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Use in varieties of Scots

nowhere	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3	10	8
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)	70.3	2	1
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	2.4	1	1
WCE - West Central	8.9	2	2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.6	2	2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	27.9	2	1
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)	35.7	1	1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of nowhere 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.

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
aboot for them, but they were nowhere till be seen-everything seeme on page 31
e found at her shoulders were nowhere till be found: all she could on page 49

2 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
a dentist who appeared out of nowhere when the pandemic started and (2021) twitter link

West Central

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
n doon castle in the middle o nowhere , but then again, the auld man
1 matches

Alston, Connor THE BLACK-EYED CHILDREN OF SCOTLAND, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
Then oot o’ absolutely nowhere …
1 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
In the theatre, as nowhere else in a culture dominated i on page 44

1 matches

Gillespie, Alan Mon the Rovers, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, prose
ond goal seemed tae come frae nowhere . Papin wis oan and went on a
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
loup out of nowhere on on page 10

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Breenge, (Scottish Poetry Library 2016) Central, poetry
loup out of nowhere on
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Cromie, Willie Doon tha Wal Raa, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2024 ISBN: 978-1739905620) Ulster - Ballywalter, prose
is doon an round becomes roon Nowhere is naewhaur
1 matches