A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'scotticism'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
scotticismOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.893
ORK - Orkney
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 12 9 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 scotticism in Corpus

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General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
A Scotticism is a word, saw or eediom that on page 38
t is conseedert tae be a slee Scotticism. on page 39

4 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
Swither is a covert Scotticism descendit frae Aald English b
el wi an example o the covert Scotticism o the type: the dog wants wal
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
able example o this ‘covert Scotticism’ phenomenon, alang wi vocab
evit SSE; i.e. it is a covert Scotticism. (In Scots, by contrast, the
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
This is a sae-cawed ‘covert Scotticism’, in that maist o its yaise
1 matches

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