A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'selected'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
selectedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.588
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 selected in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
MacDiarmid's Selected is da on page 35

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Mrs Clushet o Faaldydykes, (McStorytellers.com 2018) Doric - Banffshire, prose
bookshelf o medical beuks an selected yin. Takin it back tae his de
1 matches

General Northern

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - Introduction, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
ver Shane Strachan. The panel selected an edited the flash fiction, on page 9

1 matches

(South) East Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
These Times, This Place: Selected Journalism, Muriel Gray, Sand on page 97

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
New Selected Poems - Edwin Morgan
1 matches

West Central

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
in widely anthologised an his Selected Poems wis publisht bi Canonga on page 127

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ght response, flight bein the selected option. No that gaun ahead wa
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
t'll be in ma 'Wheen: New and Selected Poems in Scots' suin eneuch, (2020)