Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'billion'

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Use in varieties of Scots

billion	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	10.4	34	12
ORK - Orkney	9.9	1	1
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	21.9	2	2
DOR - General Northern	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central	13.8	3	1
DUN - Dundee	10.6	1	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	4.6	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	31.9	24	4
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 billion in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Bonny Isle o Sanday, (Brisk Northerly 2016) Orkney, blog
A billion grains o sand. A hunder thoos
1 matches

Shetland

Williamson, Christie Continuous at sea defence, (damagnifyingless.wordpress.com 2015) Shetland, poetry
da brains o a billion bairns
1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
An iron crystal blawn up 165 billion times, tae be exact. Biggit f on page 13

1 matches

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
the billion animals fried in the scorched on page 20

1 matches

General Northern

Bolland, John Tales Fae The Doric Side - Hadean Eon: 4.5 Billion Years ago , (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
Hadean Eon: 4.5 Billion Years Ago 1s een o a lang seq on page 83

1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
Up tae its lugs, a billion pound in debt, on page 218

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Up tae its lugs, a billion pound in debt, on page 13
war these days? Twa or three billion!? on page 45

2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ate awready an his cost £1.2 billion this far, an wis originally c on page 120

1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
Ah'm wan in near aicht billion fowk on page 24

1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
s-that is tae say, aroond twa billion growen-ups awthegither. on page 58
pace on the Yird. Gin the twa billion fowk that bide on it stood cl on page 59

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
Aboot 4.571 billion year syne a muckle clood o co
intil anither rock some 4.53 billion year syne, sheavin aff pairt
arbon, neon an iron. Ower 4.6 billion year the Sun haes been mellin
nna be fused. In anither five billion year the gaithert helium will
planets, wis makkit some 4.6 billion year syne an took mony an sin
18 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 62 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
urs athin the first twa-three billion year o its bein, whan the pla
ay, an aiblins for the bygane billion year or sae, the planet haes
2 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
es a brekdoon o waur the £12 billion went. Ah jist cannae unnersta(2020)
ould ye hae done wae yon £12 billion ye squandered oan a spreadshe(2020)