Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'ancestor'

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Use in varieties of Scots

ancestor	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	6	20	11
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	17.4	3	1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	6.5	2	2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen	10.5	1	1
DOR - General Northern	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	7.7	3	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	31	5	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	3.9	3	2
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	56.9	2	2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of ancestor 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

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
lingual wi English. Hits main ancestor languages is Norn (extinct) a on page 7
wland Scots is een o da major ancestor languages fir Shaetlan, bit i on page 20
'maet' as weel an haes da sam ancestor as Aald on page 104

3 matches

Mid Northern A

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
" Barbara had experienced her ancestor's socially disinhibited remar on page 94

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
thocht the shelt micht be an ancestor o Fauldie, her Da's favourite
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
er bi richts, cos they say mi ancestor invented a cannon or somethin on page 88

1 matches

General Northern

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - Iss place isnae big enuch for the baith o us , (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
micht bring ma back as yer ancestor, on page 78

1 matches

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Brave Ancestor
Anither Brave Ancestor
ma ancestor fell aff the ship
3 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
practise dialogues. Maybe, an ancestor suggestit, she had learnt aa
e whaever wis listenin in the ancestor warld. “Gin you wint tae pu
at Ah hear the Chinese in the ancestor -warld. There will aye be, in
wk wint tae spick tae the ilk ancestor at yince? Whit wey dae ancest
wk wint tae spick tae the ilk ancestor at yince? Whit wey dae ancest
5 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
eloped fae the ae Anglo-Saxon ancestor leid – as weel as tae ither
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
cial tae pay tribute tae thur ancestor Thomas Brownlea whae fought i

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
rainches o a myntit at common ancestor leid cried Indo-European. Fae
1 matches

General Ulster

Alexander, Brian Yarns 3 - Pilgrimage tae Passchendaele, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Dufferin, prose
w years syne A foond a direct ancestor , hithertil unkent tae me that
1 matches

@the_gellick tweeted
Scots an English hae the yin ancestor- Oul English: oxter's fae tha (2016) twitter link