A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Intro a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Texts Writers Statistics Top200 Search Compare

Concordance

Enter a word to find all occurrences of, for example ahint

The word 'quotation'

- basic concord - pre-sorted concord - post-sorted concord - map and chronology - chronogrid - similar spellings -

Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
quotationOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.2207
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 22.7 17 4
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 quotation 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.

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
een - it's says, 'Favourite quotation' ." on page 53

1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
cur in timoribus iste."An apt quotation, Tyler, but I don't think you on page 58

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
he maitter in the licht o the quotation abune? The simple truth o the on page 59

1 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
A didnae ken this quotation when A began tae scrieve pley on page 36

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
and reinforces DOST's existin quotation fae The Acts of the Lords of on page 17
- The College o Justice. The quotation, fae The Historie and Life of on page 18
t in the RPS providit a Scots quotation embeddit in a Latin text fae on page 19
it directly and the actournay quotation haes come mair deviously via on page 20

5 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
he Older Scottish Tongue in a quotation fae Dunbar in the ‘Flytingâ
Scots exemplified by a single quotation fae Sharpe’s Witchcraft Tri
urghs of Scotland. (1586). Ae quotation in the Acts of the Parliament
d howest hole to haue’ in a quotation fae John Burel’s The Passag
tellin in respeck o the Burns quotation which stertit aff this nature
6 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
k o Burns. Likewise dounricht quotation an allusion can be uised. Gin
an continuin tradeition. (Mis)quotation allooes moribund wirds an eid
2 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
nes (2 quotations) derknes (1 quotation) and darksum (2 quotation), b
) and darksum (2 quotation), but also dirknes or dyrknes
2 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
ae bottom anaw? 'Yule's Yaud' quotation here: https://t.co/6talYGAQ3J (2017) twitter link

Web Analytics