A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'translates'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
translatesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.7155
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 34.9 6 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 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 1.3 1 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 translates in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
ent” is right here, fir hid translates tae the Engliesh “against
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
dress forms: du an you. Baith translates tae Sandirt English 'you'. Da on page 54
etlan haes twa forms at baith translates tae StE 'it': hit an it. Da w on page 56
ition da tane... da tidder at translates tae Standirt on page 60
a contrasts, yun an dat baith translates tae on page 64
etlan haes twa forms at baith translates tae StE 'for': da preposition on page 80
Also on pages 100
6 matches

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
has just been submitted – it translates to Hanging in there. (Many th(2014)
ributor for Peely Wally which translates to white faced/under the weat(2014)
@AccentuateGame Translates as: Thanks fur following appr(2015)
he contributor of Donnert fit translates tae stupid. Now added to the (2016)
gon n gar im geese at” which translates to wanted her toys back as a (2018)
and 1 other occurrences.

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
g wrang wi the English makkin translates o aa the Scots they want for
1 matches

General Central

@MartinBroon tweeted
an elite will be watchin,& OK translates internationally.Why not even (2020)