A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'persecution'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
persecutionOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3105
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 53.4 5 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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 persecution in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
arry, an they aw haed tales o persecution, ilka story mair hert-brekkin on page 86

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
an in Kyle, there wis a great persecution - baith o the common folk an on page 26
outh-west were tae endure the persecution an tetror o the Killin Times. on page 39
These were cruel evil times o persecution an daith. Maist folk leeved i on page 58
But tho the persecution wis lang past, an the true ki on page 66

5 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin Universal Declaration o Human Richts, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Central, government
n ither countries asylum frae persecution.
1 matches

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
. Aifter years o struggle the persecution o Covenanters wis ower. It wi

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
nantin cause wud huv 10 years persecution and terrible sufferin aheid a

@Chazzbat tweeted
This is atrocious. White persecution o native folk is niver endin.(2020)

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