A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'os'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
osOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.486
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of os in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
lukkan fur tracks on the OS map on page 119

1 matches

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
story. Hae a guid deek at yer OS map, see foo mony ye can spot (2020) twitter link
a fan o Nicolaesen's darg, an OS Scots origin name gazetteer n (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
da an the Uni-vairsity o Tras-os-Montes. The heidmaist ettle o
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
amaste bit again. Fuckin wide-os the pair ay them. Who’s fuc
1 matches

General Central

Eagle, Andy Lallans 67 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
o the richt Ordinance Survey (OS) cairt. Maist o the pads an l on page 65

2 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
ality o this. My inner binary OS wad crash w fundamental confl(2020)

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