A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sovereign'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sovereignOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.175
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 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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 sovereign in Corpus

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Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
force an agreement atween twa sovereign nations - the Pairliament o on page 41

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ie fell tae ae knee afore his sovereign. Jamie poued him on page 17

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
tae capacity; a maelstrom ay sovereign rings, fake tan, wet perms an
1 matches

General Central

McClurg, Fernando Syriza, an the road aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
na hae the chance tae eleck a sovereign, independent govrenment tae s
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
Treeza or Domnhall signed the Sovereign Scots @NicolaSturgeon(2020)
ae the topic urgently!!!! The sovereign people o Scotia await clarifi(2020)

@pmcm1355 tweeted
hen the People o Scotland are sovereign, as laid oot in the Claim O R (2022) twitter link

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