Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'preparation'

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Use in varieties of Scots

preparation	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.8	16	9
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	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.2	1	1
GLA - Glasgow	5	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	10.5	8	2
SEA - South East (Borders)	24.2	2	2
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 preparation in Corpus

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General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
He's bin a wik or twa in preparation on page 133

1 matches

(South) East Central

McFarlane, Ishbel Does Scotland compare weil wi ither places fir wee bairnies?, (The National 2019) Central, newspaper
ird o beasts. A hid aw kind o preparation fir the frankly ridiculous ac
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
t night had been shavin’ in preparation tae go oot. When he reached f
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Mantis an aw that shite - in preparation fur the next mug that comes t
1 matches

General Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
cation tae be involved in the preparation o the strategie. COSLA brocht on page 20
and tae tift the process fur preparation o Gaelic Leid Plauns fur indi on page 27
on that wuid tak place in the preparation o the Scots Strategie. The su on page 45
uirds, tae contribute tae the preparation o Scots staunerts and guidesh on page 46
irnin, incluidin instruction, preparation and sae on. on page 50
Also on pages 60
7 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
gait, ane that patently wants preparation aforehaun, will tak aboot twi on page 44

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
*A preparation for sexual adventure
1 matches

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
tae, tomow is ma D-Day fur ma preparation tae visit Auld Reekie this wk(2020)