A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sco'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
scoOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2146
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 24.4 10 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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 sco in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
ullen. I'll be using bin as a Sco (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
[NOTE: logo here of the dot Sco in original]
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
[NOTE: logo here of the dot Sco in original]
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
[NOTE: logo here of the dot Sco in original]
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
[NOTE: logo here of the dot Sco in original]
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 176, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
[NOTE: logo here of the dot Sco in original]
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
[NOTE: logo here of the dot Sco in original]
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
[NOTE: logo here of the dot Sco in original]
1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
n we hae oor ain goverment. A Sco’ish goverment,” Annie say
nie. “Is that no spittin in Sco’ish folks’ faces, eh? Wha
folks’ faces, eh? Whan did Sco’land hae a Queen Lizzie afo
3 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
couthy in Scottish society: "Sco tland will be reborn the day on page 16

1 matches

General Central

@jack_capener tweeted
ords with a glottal stop (eg. Sco'ish instead o Scottish) in he(2018)

@jax6754 tweeted
ry @GethincJones if it wisnae Sco vs Wales a wid be a sportin W(2015)