A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'burghs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
burghsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.797
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 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 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 burghs in Corpus

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North East Central

Heather, Alistair Bravehert: The truth anent William Wallace (pairt 2), (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
bits an pairts o him sent tae burghs aa ower Scotland.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
Aw the douce border touns an burghs wes circulat wi weirwaws an
thai herried aw the ferms an burghs, settin
2 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Soonds o the kirk an court: early airt muisic in Scotland, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
nou unner the owerance o the burghs, gaed on tae win back a guid
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 104 - Whaur Div Ye Belang Tae?, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
nes in either. Fae the 1670's burghs stertit keepin registers o sa on page 52

2 matches

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 73 - Monument, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
And whyles the little burghs wi their silly trade on page 100

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
f the Convention of the Royal Burghs of Scotland. (1586). Ae quota
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
tit wi the significance o the burghs and the centrality o Scots in
1 matches

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