Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'allowance'

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Use in varieties of Scots

allowance	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.3	14	10
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	5.8	1	1
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	10.9	1	1
DOR - General Northern	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	10.1	4	2
WCE - West Central	9.2	2	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	18.2	4	3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	13.9	1	1
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 allowance 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.

Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
f a flat ... give her a small allowance, she shouldn't be very demand on page 35

1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
new month o ma phone’s data allowance . I went ben tae Grunny’s be
1 matches

General Northern

Mitchell, Ian R. Lallans 63 - Walkin Woundit, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
the welfare state wi faimily allowance and sae forth.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
d fish wrapper ma Joabseekers Allowance hus been stoaped because ah o on page 119
ted your claim for Jobseekers Allowance. A benefit sanction is standa on page 126
to reinstate your Jobseekers Allowance today". He then leans oor the on page 127

3 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
e day's Scots speakers, makin allowance for the orra spellins.
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
t mean they'd stop yir Family Allowance. on page 169

2 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
ed and lose your job seeker's allowance.' on page 103

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
random allowance ay energy that comes wi these on page 3

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part two of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
nt brought in the Job Seekers Allowance towards the end of last year.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ought in this Joab Seeker’s Allowance , it’s aw placements an that
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - No In-gleesh, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
ar drap a £30 excess baggage allowance in ma shorts.
1 matches