Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'apocryphal'

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Use in varieties of Scots

apocryphal	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	1.2	4	3
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee	21.2	2	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.7	2	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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of apocryphal in Corpus

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Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
re min?' is maist likely jist apocryphal. Mind ye there's them that'll on page 75
ace. Awbody kennt that it was apocryphal that when she was yung she ha on page 100

2 matches

General Central

Law, John Lallans 56 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
ition o Burns haes a nummer o apocryphal pieces leetit, at isna accept on page 4

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
soonds. Tak tent forby o the apocryphal tale o the English textbuik y
1 matches