A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'soaps'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
soapsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.655
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 soaps in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
e bed and watch me favourite 'soaps'. on page 25

1 matches

Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
I am fed up a dis eens in soaps flypin aff dir masks fir dram (2021) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
sleepy seat afore bedtime. Ma soaps ir oan bit the soun's turnt d on page 46

1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
bbies are Celtic and watching soaps on the telly. Naw we didnae t
1 matches

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
boot em? There are plenty o’ soaps and stuff around us! a can re(2020)