A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'buildings'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
buildingsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4119
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 1
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 buildings in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Crackan the troughs, (Brisk Northerly 2021) Orkney, blog
ible and vulnerable close tae buildings or in patches o scrub, or on
1 matches

General Northern

Maitland, Andrew Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Auld Mannie, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
uch tae tak the roofs aff the buildings, and droon the fowk bidin in on page 72

1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Lallans 62 - The Numpty, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
bs destroyed several shipyard buildings. Firefighters are still worki
1 matches

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
e were several ramshackle oot buildings and a stane- built twa storey
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
n the public areas in the new buildings will be in English, Gaelic an
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined st on page 87

1 matches

General Central

McNeil, Andrew Lallans 58 - Carnegie’s Turning, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Noo 21st Century buildings gang moolderin: on page 122

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
he higgledy-piggledy concrete buildings oantae the prey sky. The soun on page 41
and grocers. Almaist aw o the buildings wur sandstone in those days, on page 75

2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Nuhin is Certain, Except, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
troyin mare than 80% o’ the buildings.
ssically-styled monuments and buildings up in 2014 in the hope ae att
2 matches

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