A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sample'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sampleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.62112
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 31.4 5 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.7 8 5
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sample in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Haggis tasting notes, and whisky pairings, (Brisk Northerly 2019) Orkney, blog
e drive sooth o Inverness tae sample the cream o the crop. Serve t
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
itin /_raɪtɪn/, etc. See da sample text doon below (writin, wrot on page 36

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
t eis lad fyle geein oot free sample's tae thi hotel's, he weis a on page 38

2 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
, though I will expect a free sample in return! https://t.co/9vq16(2017)

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
aud o Scots nairitive. Here a sample o Hunter's writin fae "James
zual database methods for tae sample wirds wi the "ch" an "gh" dig
2 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ure. A blood test and a stool sample. To rule out anything more si
. ‘’Extract a small stool sample and pop it into the tube. Ret
2 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
a jean poacket. Scoopin oot a sample ae ma shit and miraculously d
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
he flat ah must huv shoved ma sample ae shite in ma jean poacket w
id ah wis tae hand in a stool sample’’
2 matches

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
heich proportion o her Embro sample classified Gleswegian as 'hal on page 9

3 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
OST haesna covered mair nor a sample o it. on page 15

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 56 - Cauld Kail Fae Embro, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
ts langauge..." an that "...a sample survey, asking respondents if on page 121

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ae argy-bargy and jist a tiny sample fae the fouth o vocabulary th
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
airried oot yaisin gey muckle sample sizes fur tae analyse the his
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Thon Survation poll..., (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
nummers is doon tae ootliers, sample variation, the methodologies
1 matches

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
tae sample Norlin Airlan es pairt o' an on page 63

1 matches

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