Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'positions'

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Use in varieties of Scots

positions	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.1	13	10
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	7.7	3	3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee	10.6	1	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	16.3	3	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	5.3	4	3
SEA - South East (Borders)	12.5	1	1
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)	32.8	1	1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of positions 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.

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
They've got multiple positions on page 33

1 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
their increasingly precarious positions . They’re biscuit-ersed an t
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
he Vice-convener an Thesaurer positions syne some o the fowk maist su
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
onie challenge tae their ain positions. The Toun Cooncil were deid s on page 125

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
. Others start oot in loftier positions, fawin further doon wae each on page 12

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
he platform. Ah examine their positions studiously, ma creation - a
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Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
. Others start oot in loftier positions , fawin further doon wae each
1 matches

General Central

Anderson, Elizabeth Lallans 59 - OBITUARY : ALISTAIR TAYLOR 1928 - 2001, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
r mony ears, holdin different positions. Ower the heid o his muckle l on page 4

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McClurg, Fernando Tae see oorsels as we see ithers, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
inery fast entrenchin itsel i positions o mair an mair pooer. Forbye,
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
through, in sindry syntatical positions , e.g:
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
land (whae haudit significant positions , includin Lord Chancellor, un
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South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
oor rebels were in these positions, being slaves?! ??(2020)

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
ore mine. We hae prime sentry positions on Greenland Grove. As soldie
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