A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'saalt'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
saaltOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.963
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 2
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 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 saalt in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
s a cuppid bucket an a reek o saalt. on page 60

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Twaard empty saalt-scoored on page 6
in brakken watter - yir saalt solder brok on page 15
Saalt watter tummlan on page 24

3 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
h! She was up tae hur chin in saalt watter. Hur firrst thocht was on page 19
saalt watter hed no got intae eet), on page 27

2 matches

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