A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'scriptures'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
scripturesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4113
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 39.3 3 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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) 127.2 7 1

Occurrences of scriptures in Corpus

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Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
weel in his Catechism an the Scriptures, an it hurt him sair tae be c on page 22
ent in their observance o the Scriptures an mindfu o their practice ac on page 24

3 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - A Mass In Scots For Saint Andrae, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
as was screivit in the Scriptures. on page 97

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
phit. ° This ïs tha yin tha Scriptures taak aboot whan the' say: on page 9
yin that's writ aboot ïn tha Scriptures: 'Noo luk, A'll sen oot ma me on page 81
m: "It ïs writ doon (ïn tha Scriptures), 'Ma hoose wull be a hoose o on page 103
y yin. It's writ doon ïn tha Scriptures: 'He wus coontit amang tha la on page 107
e plain tae thaim whut aa tha Scriptures sayed aboot hïssel. on page 111
Also on pages 112
7 matches

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