Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'representatives'

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Use in varieties of Scots

representatives	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.4	14	6
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	95.6	9	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	5.4	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	4	3	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 representatives 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

Clark, Sara Scot Free -The Psychic Cost O Uisin Scots, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
ll thaim tae yer freends, yer representatives , at hame or online, houever y
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
seem tae get the jobs o bein representatives. It needs sayin, time an agin on page 10
unin in Scotland. Did oor ain representatives at on page 17
an whit the electit representatives actually dae. The bourach in on page 30
ar majority o oor Westminster representatives electit as supporters o an in on page 45
Scottish while oor ain actual representatives get little or nae chance tae on page 49
Also on pages 66, 85, 90, 129
9 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
ted. Needless to say that the representatives of only one gang have turned on page 59

1 matches

General Central

Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
rofile athin education. Scots representatives brocht tae the fore tae thit
1 matches

Donati, Colin Universal Declaration o Human Richts, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Central, government
representatives freely waled.
1 matches

@RickHJohnston tweeted
n allowed since 1707 when our representatives were taen tae task because of (2022) twitter link