Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'trousers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

trousers	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.4	11	7
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	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central	9.2	2	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.3	1	1
GLA - Glasgow	5.4	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	8	6	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 trousers in Corpus

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(South) East Central

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
torn a hole in the erse o ma trousers .”
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Stripped doun tae wir trousers, buits an kneepads, on page 83
raced, an wi the arse out his trousers! Aa his gear wis confiscated, on page 101

2 matches

Edinburgh

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
tucks himself back intae his trousers and sits up, standing from th
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
a plain white blouse n black trousers. Addison's maw hus a grey pow on page 51

1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
hirt, open at the toap, black trousers and a belt, and God knows he on page 58
e shirt, blue jumpe, and grey trousers fur the occasion. He micht no on page 76
Ah pick the tuna aff ma trousers and pop it intae ma mooth. Ca on page 78

3 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
on/holiday, line/queue, pants/trousers ).
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
im mask on Donald Whaur's Yer Trousers.(2020)
he words o Donald Whaur's yer trousers(2020)