A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'swathes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
swathesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.863
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 31.9 3 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
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 swathes in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
, da bog asphodel explodes in swathes a waarm orange. on page 91

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
berment an subjugation o vast swathes o the ancient warld - his ay on page 98
t Brexit. Weel, the fack that swathes o aince loyal Labour voters i on page 111
nnae like, an destroyin haill swathes o oor planet, is ayont ma und on page 117

3 matches

General Central

Ewen, Allan The Blin Man an the Man Wha Couldna See, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
Aye furder: muckle swathes o Hielands; agriculture, fore
1 matches

Ewen, Allan The “Auld Lang Syne” Paradox, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
o braidkestin is essention as swathes o fowk i Scotland are current
1 matches

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