A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'capture'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
captureOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.92320
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 1
LAL - General Central 13.1 10 9
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of capture in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Coronavirus: Photos capture Cruden Bay life in lockdown h(2020)

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
dingin doon aw the buildins. Capture it and huckle it back here al on page 30

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 125, (self-published 2004) Central, newspaper
Airmy in Italy an managed tae capture Monte Cassino efter ither uni
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Clicky when Nicola tried tae capture us. on page 169

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
idin tae his aid an maistlike capture or kill them aw. Gin they wer on page 17
, if oniebody did attempt tae capture him they'd jist get battert. on page 83

2 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
in the English dictionary tae capture ma present mood. The street i
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
er. The boys managed to evade capture and here we are. I've got six on page 55

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
an brek up hill getherins, an capture the leaders. Sae nou at ilka on page 28
ld glens an passes for fear o capture by the dragoons. on page 51

2 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Mannie, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
couldna wark fast enough tae capture it aw. By the time she wis do on page 10

1 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
t sic beautiful music, and ye capture ma soul in a sang, on page 78

1 matches

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
national meisures hechle tae capture Gaelic in a meaningfu wey, pa on page 26

1 matches

Steele, Gregor Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
They'll capture the castles, brek oot guns an on page 5

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
questration but wis tryin tae capture a range o spelling). This pro on page 20

1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
ex haed come ben Scotland tae capture Soothron fowk on the run, an
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
eanin is gey trauchlesome tae capture in fou in jist ane English wi
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
wi 5,000 merks reward fur his capture.

Facebook link ( 2017) Central
ifter him but he still evaded capture. In desperation they put 5000

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
ade o wyce fife wummin tae re capture him @TriciaMarwick @valmcderm(2020)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
capture o the Port an Toun o Berwick,
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

@Angelinekking tweeted
ns, you’ll find something to capture the imagination of the big we(2020)

General Ulster

McMaster, Anne Yarns 3 - Tha Gift / At Sea / Hairst Light, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Ulster, poetry
A wull capture it. Mine it weel.
1 matches

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