Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'saxon'

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Use in varieties of Scots

saxon	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5	16	9
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	29.1	5	1
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	10.2	4	3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.3	1	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	5.3	4	3
SEA - South East (Borders)	12.5	1	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	14.1	1	1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of saxon 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.

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
da Jutish settlers), da Wast Saxon Aald English (spokken bi da d on page 14

5 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
· Anglo-Saxon
Anglo-Saxon
2 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
the twenes wes uggit wi Anglo-Saxon airchis.
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 125, (self-published 2004) Central, newspaper
akers is o ethnic Scots/Anglo-Saxon origin. There a lot o guid Sc
1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
plenes whitwey fowk cry Anglo-Saxon "auld English", no kiz thare on page 13

1 matches

General Central

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
wersettins frae the auld West-Saxon leid by Tom and Alexander Sco
1 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
Anglo-Saxon or
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
th developed fae the ae Anglo-Saxon ancestor leid – as weel as
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
dialect o Auld English/Anglo-Saxon . It syne growed intae a leid
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
t the naem Maislee is o Anglo Saxon origin meanin
1 matches

General Ulster

Ni Chuilin, Caral Roadin furtae Bring Forrits an Graith tha ULSTER-SCOTCH Leid, Heirskip an Cultur, (Mannystrie o Fowkgates, Airts an Aisedom 2015) Ulster, government
n thae days pairt o tha Anglo-Saxon Kïngrick o Noarthumbria. Owe on page 6

1 matches