A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'pronounced'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pronouncedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.12911
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 58.1 10 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.3 6 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 16.3 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 37.4 3 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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of pronounced in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
wirds (laek ithoot 'without', pronounced /əθ'ut/). on page 27
ang vowels is jüst eens at's pronounced a peerie start langer as shor on page 28
rphemes in Shaetlan is - een (pronounced /in/) an hit maks nouns (enti on page 40
s gyaan on is markit wi - in (pronounced /ən/): on page 41
e is shaan wi da suffix - in (pronounced /ən/), as in He's rainin. It on page 45
Also on pages 80, 103
9 matches

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
e is shaan wi da suffix - in (pronounced /ən/), as in He's rainin. It

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
d's an airm, yer honour!" (He pronounced id "arrum.") on page 35

1 matches

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
illers are cried Kinochers (k pronounced) because of a small (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
year syne whan thae words wis pronounced mair or less the same wey bai
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
l hae libertie to bespeak ye (Pronounced 'the') man she likes; albeit,
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
aphy an whaur a letter wisnae pronounced in Scots, it wis left oot an
" in Burnes or Burness wisnae pronounced, Robert yaised the English sp
cottish surname Barnes is aye pronounced (Barns) an Inglis is aye pron
(Barns) an Inglis is aye pronounced (Ingels) wi Scots speakers ya
4 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
k, but the poor wee thing wis pronounced deid shortly after arrival. on page 169

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
“Ego,” she pronounced.
1 matches

Glasgow

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
The way Sergio pronounced wur names the J sounded like
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
roat, the sensation ay warmth pronounced in its descent. Takin another
ss it by, startlin me wae the pronounced metallic double-ring ay the b
2 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
as in Standard English it is pronounced as such. on page 18
s usually silent but is often pronounced in the derived forms (especia on page 19

2 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
ll yaise it withoot thinking. Pronounced mair like thur.(2020)

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 75 - Gie Us Back Oor Place Names, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Southern, prose
dgehaugh an Philiphaugh becum pronounced Bridgehaw an Philiphaw. The s
haw. The surname Waugh becums pronounced Waw an Loch Menteith is corru
e on the muir) whaur muir wes pronounced, mair, ti Morebattle.
3 matches

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