A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sizzens'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sizzensOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.581
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 26.2 8 1
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
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 sizzens in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ed an cweeled bi the cheengin sizzens, as muckle a pairt o the scen
ncertainties o the North East Sizzens. Fifty-three year auld an dee
airns that cam an gaed wi the Sizzens, that wadna be richt an fitti
3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
bield agin the gurly gales o sizzens that war tiltin ajee wi globa
o fire engines. Nae jist the sizzens wis shooglie –– aa the ba
wis ayeweys winter – wi nae sizzens nur nae trees. There wis nae
r ettlin sair tae inbring the Sizzens aince mair.
Sizzens return: bit nae tae me cams b
5 matches

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