A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'scam'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
scamOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4119
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
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 scam in Corpus

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Shetland

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
aen bit dis wis some damnföl scam shö wis tryin on.
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
she wiz seekin there. By the scam o the full meen she saw the s
1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
@muddy_40 Scam min(2020)
@advancedref Scam min(2020)
@FinHall Scam thing wrang spelling disna ev(2020)

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
ae a guid-gauin sheep-staelin scam. Ae nicht, Millar tries ti sw
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
trainee in an start the whole scam oer again. The Buroo? They’
1 matches

Ayrshire

Lehane, Matt La Le La Le La Iron Mountain, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
in the scam culture o misappropriation
1 matches

General Central

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
, it's some kind of clickbait scam and dinnae click on it.(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
@andrewjonsso Whaur's the scam? Folk deid. Folk ur gettin si(2020)

@raiphsays tweeted
e” is aw aboot a place! It a scam folk! #Noclikalinks!(2020)