A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'bilingual'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bilingualOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus124026
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 40.7 7 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 25.6 5 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 18.4 14 10
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 2
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 2
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 58.1 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bilingual in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
lish. Aa Shaetlan spaekers is bilingual wi English. Hits main ancesto on page 7
a start Shetland cam tae be a bilingual plaess wi Scots an Norn. Da t on page 15
Shetland is noo a bilingual community in English an Shaet on page 16
e seen aareidy, dis primer is bilingual wi Shaetlan as da deafult, an on page 21
Shetland is a bilingual community at's bøn formally on page 36

6 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
st Koen Zondag’s comment on bilingual education in Friesland:
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Elphinstone Institute Aiberdeenshire Cooncil – Scots Leid Guidelines, (Aberdeenshire Council 2017) Doric, government
maun be recognised for being bilingual an win the chaunce tae develo
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
lish? Ah div baith sae she is bilingual! http://t.co/Ons4hayeQt(2015)

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
, spik Scots, it’s guid, yer bilingual (or soon w (2020) twitter link

General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
canna spik e Doric, it's nae bilingual!! https://t.co/NJsdKVt145(2018)
multinational company gettin' bilingual.(2019)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
at they're quite happy tae be bilingual in thair ain form o Scots (be
1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas A Scots Pairlament?, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
doon o things. The runnin o a bilingual government is a hard eneuch b
1 matches

@annieones tweeted
n it, its in oor blood. We're bilingual. (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
Bilingual road signs. Inverlochy, Inbhi on page 3

1 matches

Bratchpiece, Neil The Wee Man Ft. Leo - Parliamo Glasgow, (YouTube 2014) Central - Glasgow, poetry
I'm no mexicano but I'm funky bilingual
I'm no mexicano but I'm funky bilingual
I'm no mexicano but I'm funky bilingual
I'm no mexicano but I'm funky bilingual
4 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
ts an English are, in effeck, bilingual. Bilingualism, faur frae bein on page 11
(Eds.) Policy and Practice in Bilingual Education (1995). Multilingua on page 24

2 matches

Allan, Alasdair Scots Language Policy, (Scots Parliament 2015) Central, government
ch as opposed tae the current bilingual approach. on page 6

1 matches

Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
again hit cams in haundy bein bilingual. on page 4

1 matches

Holton, Brian Lallans 67 - The Nine Sangs: Brian Holton, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Dept. of Chinese and Bilingual Studies on page 33

1 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
saftware package, guidance on bilingual signs an oncome o
an bilingual education oot-throu primary,
micht weel be trilingual, no bilingual, for in
for aw that. A literate bilingual capacity that is no nurtured
4 matches

Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
groups hae a bilingual tak?
1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
t men o the period was snodly bilingual in Laitin an Inglis an aften
1 matches

Fenton, Janet A Guid New Year tae yin and a!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central, blog
they ken we are at least that bilingual. Ye can see hoo its makin Sco
1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 59 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, newspaper
airsels, an I dinna mean thon bilingual pun ye juist missed gin ye’
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
o English) is twa-leidit, or bilingual, in the twa languages o Scots
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
cht or nine year auld, an wis bilingual. Eftir an accident wi a parac
1 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
hev, lang-sin-syne becum, ae bilingual societie i.e. Scots/Eng an Ga
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
ye'd best no cry yersel 'bilingual'. on page 12

1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
uatter o byleids. Syne yer no bilingual Ah jaloose ye'll no ow (2020) twitter link

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Lennox, Rab Yarns 3 - Ulster-Scot frae Magherafelt, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Ballymoney, poetry
I just found out, I’m Bilingual
1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
rilingual yins inaboot Derry. Bilingual yins in Ards were wheeked doo (2017) twitter link