A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'scotticisms'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
scotticismsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.3173
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 22.7 17 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 scotticisms in Corpus

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General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
Slee Scotticisms on page 2
pit ower yer pynt? See Covert Scotticisms bi Antoni Uri forby. on page 5
Slee Scotticisms on page 38
Instances o slee Scotticisms on page 39

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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
‘covert’ and ‘overt’ Scotticisms.
Overt Scotticisms, on the ither haun, are a mai
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@LairnScots tweeted
fir Scots? Whit aboot Hume's 'Scotticisms'? https://t.co/4uZTIpF72e htt (2020) twitter link
htenment, an Hume's infamous 'Scotticisms', here: https://t.co/vcz5Sdas (2020) twitter link
shows mair examples, fae the 'Scotticisms', that we wid consider #Scots (2020) twitter link
airt o this is the focus oan 'Scotticisms'. See here: https://t.co/D54m (2019) twitter link
t David Hume's famous list o 'Scotticisms' tae avoid includit sic words (2019) twitter link

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