A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'smaller'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
smallerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.11312
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 3
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 smaller in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Tait, Ruth Gallows Ha - Watchan Eyes, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Noo sheu occupies an even smaller bit o green on page 10

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
deid loss. I bullied aal the smaller boys an didna gie a toss on page 68

1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
It might be attractive to the smaller types of bees found elsewhere(2020)
die while to gather that much smaller stuff here(2020)

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
e me beeger, id mosst make me smaller, A suppose." on page 38

1 matches

Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
igger the males are black and smaller...ah killed aboot 2 hunner (2021) twitter link

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
@HopepunkQ @theSNP Folk were smaller fin Moses started making bask(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
d fer years & works on a much smaller budget than Rangers & Celtic (2017)

(South) East Central

Crawford, Ross Mindin, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
it will be different — and smaller than she deserves — but the
1 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Eemis Stane 1 - The Mindin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
The room wis smaller than the pit, yet een as a ri on page 8

1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
it's no jist wan but twa, the smaller last on page 70

1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
oan the ceilin above it. T'wo smaller altars sit oan either side. W on page 112

1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
an_bay @IAmChrisRamsey It's a smaller poster tae! Mair chance o get(2015)

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