Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'butterflies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

butterflies	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.1	10	10
ORK - Orkney	29.8	3	3
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	10.9	1	1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	5.1	2	2
WCE - West Central	4.6	1	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	4.6	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)	12.5	1	1
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)	32.8	1	1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of butterflies in Corpus

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Orkney

Sclater, Kathryn Gallows Ha - The chapel by the burn, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
chasan moths and butterflies. on page 6

1 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
A frilly blouse wae butterflies oan on page 98

1 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
an butterflies, like Christmas on page 123

1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Flooery achievement for the Scots Government, (The National 2019) Doric, newspaper
source o nectar for bees and butterflies tae feed on. Local bees will
1 matches

(South) East Central

Grubb, Adrian Bungee, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Kirkcaldy, prose
his wis whin the fear and the butterflies really startit kickin in. A w
1 matches

McKinlay, Kieran Walk Way to Fame, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
eamed an cheered, then ah got butterflies in ma stomach and ah stormed
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
the queue ah startet tae get butterflies in ma stomach, Tiger, Murray on page 116

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Butterflies noo. Fuckin nerves, always ha
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
lik butterflies the joss-paper auss flies by,
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
fillt wi fossils, insects an butterflies. She leukt up, away frae the on page 48

1 matches