Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'varieties'

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Use in varieties of Scots

varieties	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	13.3	44	13
ORK - Orkney	9.9	1	1
SHD - Shetland	116.2	20	2
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	21.2	2	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	27.6	21	9
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 varieties in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
st tae the Orkney or Shetland varieties , remains almost entirely rest
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
utually intelligible wi idder varieties o Scots aless fir da eens idd on page 7
be acceptance o da baith o da varieties whaar de'r seen as bein langu on page 9
en. bit mutually intelligible varieties can be naemed different langu on page 12
sam time mercenaries at spak varieties o da Nort Sea Germanic langua on page 13
Da varieties o da Nort Sea Germanic langua on page 14
Also on pages 20, 24, 27, 31, 60, 63
16 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
The varieties of English and French (and ot
eady had a grammar. The other varieties did not lose their grammars j
2 matches

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
is still fun aawye athin mony varieties o Scots an English aroond da

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
nch hae it. Nearly aa English varieties ir lost it, but you can still

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
n are but a puckle o the braw varieties o the auld leid o Scotland ye on page 63

2 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
a wheen o pley production in varieties o Scots in the nineteenth cen on page 37
y braw modren pleys wrocht in varieties o modren Scots since thae yin on page 40
s interest in scrievin in the varieties of Scots as weel as other lei on page 44

4 matches

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
ration and incluision o ither varieties and byleids o Scots, incluidi on page 45

1 matches

Allan, Alasdair Scots Language Policy, (Scots Parliament 2015) Central, government
s language in aw its regional varieties. on page 4

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
get clortit ontae ither urban varieties o Scots as weel's Gleswegian. on page 9

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
reely athin a group o langage varieties . Norther Middle Inglis, joogl
1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
tergenerationally transmeetit varieties o Mid-Ulster Inglish wis furm
Scots influence on mainstream varieties o Mid-Ulster Inglish is ‘it
2 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
s no Lallans. It is ane o the varieties o Scots that, like its speake
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
Dae ye ken yer language varieties fae yer languages? Yer diptho
Varieties o Global English
le English language in aw its varieties , iverywhaur, and aw its yaise
sh exemple o siblike language varieties , we micht tak tent o the Germ
and Swiss naitional staunart varieties o the German language.
8 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
eWineSociety Heres twa auld varieties ye rarely hear o nouadays. ht(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
rosswords, featurin different varieties o Scots: https://t.co/LUtwkhf (2018) twitter link