A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'traits'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
traitsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.244
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 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of traits in Corpus

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West Central

Sutherland, Hope Twa sisters, een room, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Buckie, prose
ou could say we do share some traits if yi think aboot it. We’re
1 matches

General Central

@Chazzbat tweeted
Ah'm watchin a documentary on traits o psychopaths. They're basica(2020)

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
urprisingly, we share similar traits... https://t.co/4L6ONKypZP(2020)

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
nemies an pray fer thaim that traits ye ïll, that ye micht be chi on page 6

1 matches

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