A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'basics'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
basicsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.276
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 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
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
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 basics in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie Back tae trowie schul, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
doot du’ll be startin wi da basics o Human Avoidance,” I smeeg
ef. “Wir gaein tae learn da basics an den hock wirsels oot a new
2 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Will virus crisis mean a fresh stairt for Scots produce?, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
un tae hiv tae gaung back tae basics. Relyin on local produce, or
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
that means ?? I jist ken, the basics, heid oar the ba, keep it doo (2022) twitter link

West Central

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
aw o seein them throu. Sindry basics that he's currently wantin o
1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
an wis happy tae explain the basics o asterbaw tae Kat. Cloot had on page 19

1 matches

@rattlecans tweeted
SH in between teaching em the basics of addition and subtraction, (2022) twitter link

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