Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'callum'

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Use in varieties of Scots

callum	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	25.6	85	9
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	166.8	51	2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	35.5	8	2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	25.8	10	3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	93	15	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	1.3	1	1
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 callum in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Ireland, Mark Wi A Facey Like Yours, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Banff, prose
"Callum get yer back side doon es sta
d but niver hid ony sheen on! Callum ’s mam was aye wis in a flap
i door in time for school but Callum isna viry good at gettin ridy
Ere goes Callum troddin bain the road fan he
I loly pop mannie watches Callum cross i roadie thinkin to him
50 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
week, by a topper o a loon - Callum. #lairnscots #scotslanguage # (2020) twitter link

General Northern

Leslie, Deborah Tales Fae The Doric Side - Mabel, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
et ye canna wyte te meet her, Callum?" on page 91
"Callum's upstairs. Ah think his nose on page 93
"Granda te Callum." He chaps his knuckles again on page 94
"See aat Callum - she likes ye." Granda grin on page 97

7 matches

@daleser23 tweeted
@RossAndrew7 @CallumC19 haha callum i would do the exact opposite(2013)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
"Ah'm, Callum" ah tell him. Before takin an on page 49
laughter. "Oh, Callum," he tells me, "you're a funn on page 50
"We'd now like to ask Callum to step up," he sais. This is on page 53
eresting piece you just read, Callum. Tell us what inspired such a on page 57
s voice sais: "That's classic Callum." Said voice is Henry who ah on page 58

6 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 117, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
Callum MacDonald Memorial Award 2003
THE Callum MacDonald Memorial Award wis
2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
nk you from me to michael and callum - b oan lads (2020) twitter link
CallumCarsonWLC enjoy ur game callum - broxburn v camelon looks a (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Callum
Big Callum wis, fair tae say, the maist
t an’ disgraced themselves! Callum , efter hearin’ the complain
Steam pourin’ oot his ears, Callum turned his gaze oan them. “
ey were a shambles!” ranted Callum , noo thoroughly warmed up tae
15 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
Mair recent like A'v enjoyed Callum and The Mountain bi Alan MacC on page 57

1 matches