Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Intro a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Texts Writers Statistics Top200 Search Compare

Concordance

The word 'actor'

- basic concord - pre-sorted concord - post-sorted concord - map and chronology - chronogrid - similar spellings -

Use in varieties of Scots

actor	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	6.1	20	14
ORK - Orkney	9.9	1	1
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	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	7.6	3	3
WCE - West Central	27.6	6	3
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	12.5	2	2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	9.3	7	5
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 actor 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

@peediepuss tweeted
@jm_stout An actor in a played out peedie story (2020) twitter link

General Northern

Maitland, Andrew Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Auld Mannie, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
s - the eldest tae become an actor oan the West End, while the y on page 77

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
bit like a young fresh pussed actor who finds himself oan the set on page 62

1 matches

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
and the Scottish Government. Actor Gary Lewis, who is a great su
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 176, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
Tom Fleming is an actor an director wi a kenspeckle c
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 76 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
BBC, but forby this he wes an actor, reader, preacher, organist a on page 3

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
e's the maist intolerable ham actor ah've ever seen. Accordin tae on page 169

2 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
ide-reyngin expairience as an actor, BBC commentator an leiterari on page 135

2 matches

Clark, Thomas Mindin on Willie McIlvanney, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Bellshill, blog
life he wad hae made a barrie actor , if dissemblin had been in hi
1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
Sae slow aa sets rot. Ilka actor blears on page 16

1 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
, wi white teeth jist like an actor in the pictures. He had this on page 76

1 matches

General Central

Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
tae bes played bi wan female actor. Apairt frae the twa-three li on page 1

2 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
rang," Mr. Poe said, "He's an actor, ye ken, and he's ayeweys dot on page 16

2 matches

@_Erinboyle_ tweeted
better my favourite Scottish Actor pops up, hope yer with Stella (2016) twitter link

@Chazzbat tweeted
w He wis amazin. Superb comic actor, but a great strecht man an a(2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
heFrogmeister Er, a BritState actor. Ah ken ye ken, but lots don' (2022) twitter link