A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'spectrum'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spectrumOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5169
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 12 9 4
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 spectrum in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
ti fire up Sabre Wulf on the Spectrum 48k. A 37 year old game and I(2021)

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom Lallans 59 - Leids and Lieder: Walcome ti Helvetiscots, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
hit is.' At the ither end o a spectrum frae Duchosal's cosmopolitan on page 5

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
hees an icon in the political spectrum n its high time u respected u (2021) twitter link
lloway icons of the political spectrum - a happy new year when it c (2020) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
e Vigil aye attractit a braid spectrum, no jist o poleetical opinion on page 104
gey limitit British political spectrum, will stand up an shout aboot on page 122

2 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
eans and young yins, the hale spectrum o distresst kin on page 19

1 matches

General Central

Sneddon, Alison Whit dae ye want “British vailues” tae mean?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
y actors across the political spectrum tae push whitever agenda suit
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
d across the pro-Independence spectrum. A strang an respeckit fechte
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
English – Steppin Stane or Spectrum?
lisk at this steppin stane or spectrum norrie.
Spectrum
ar that the existence o sic a spectrum doesnae detract in onie wey f
lae, awbeit ye can hae a hale spectrum o colour in atween.
5 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
at the mair extreme end o the spectrum, as ‘(emotionally) exhauste
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
cludit that Scots is first ae spectrum that is influencit nae jist b(2020)

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